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American Buffalo. A fiendishly curious ear for language and a trio of pungent and hilarious characters earned David Mamet the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play...
...steelmen's case for higher prices is simple: they need more money, and quickly. Steel profits have slumped deeply this year; Bethlehem in the third quarter reported a record loss of $477 million. The announced price rises found a generally sympathetic ear in Washington. Barry Bosworth, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, termed Wheeling's 7% increase "awfully big," but a COWPS official later said of the Bethlehem-Inland hikes: "With inflation running around 6%, nobody is terribly concerned about a 5.5% increase?if that's to be the only increase...
...horror stories from inmates. One woman arrested on a drug charge claims she was informed that if she refused to confess, she would be tossed into a river and ground up by a nearby power plant. Another charged that officials had ripped off one of her earrings-and her ear lobe. Male inmates reported being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According to Stark, some prisoners told of extortion demands of up to $40,000 by Mexican lawyers promising to get them released. Before he was transferred from Mexico City's Santa Marta prison, Frank...
There has been some striking speculation that whales may have a language. Cetaceans have a highly developed sense of hearing that evolved--as did echolocution--to compensate for an inability to see underwater. The noises they make sound like clicks and whistles and meaningless barks to the human ear. However, some observers have noticed that whales put these sounds together in startling ways. Cummings and Philippi, who worked on the Navy's marine mammal research program, found that in the right whale, "Low frequency sounds occurred in similar stanzas lasting 11 to 14 minutes...These phonetic components...were so orderly...
...million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...