Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything the Beatles do. These 30 songs, complete with your basic piquant photographs in a ridiculously overpriced package, are a rich pleasure; but still one misses the sense of discovery, the excitement of hearing something that lingers on half-understood in the senses, the irritating stimulating grain of dust that turns into a pearl. Such was that prophetic slowing down of tempo and space to harpsichord backing right in the middle of "We Can Work It Out" and I remember the swirling artful mess that turned out to be "Strawberry Fields...
...explosion in West Frankfort, Ill.* Muffled explosions shook Consol No. 9 for three days, preventing rescue workers from going in after possible survivors. No one could say what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible coal dust and deadly methane. Though the mine had been checked regularly with gas-measuring safety devices, miners called No. 9 "hot" before the explosion. William Park, a U.S. Bureau of Mines official, confirmed that it was "extremely gassy...
...mile, the flying junior dualed B.U.'s Pete Hoss for the lead throughout the second, with Pottetti close behind. Just before the two-mile mark, Colburn charged up a hill "like a goddam maniac," in Coach McCurdy's words. Pottetti followed suit and Hoss was left in the dust ten yards back...
...Buhl said that the construction underway for the fourth house has a great deal to do with the girls' moving out. "Yesterday we got a new delight--a pile driver," she said. Noise and dust make girls unwilling to leave their windows open, yet the heat makes a closed room oppressive, she added...
...itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself, the scene is confused and intense. It is harrowing, and it is magnificent. But it does not make a movie...