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...years ago Justin Suddeth, then 14, found a deformed, nine-legged frog at a pond near the Sequoyah Fuels plant in Gore, Okla. In 1981 an eyeless baby girl was born to parents living a few miles from the same plant. The National Cancer Institute has reported that the leukemia rate for white men in counties surrounding Sequoyah Fuels is five percentage points higher than the national average. Is there a connection? Local residents think so: Sequoyah Fuels processes uranium concentrate into ingredients for bombs and nuclear-power- plan t fuel. The factory has been cited in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Making Fertilizer from What? | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...believe, Mother, That the splendor of life Is born in my prison; And I believe that My final visitor Will not be an eyeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Palestinian Songs of Liberation | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...husband, the Prince Liu Cheng-is the first such suit yet unearthed. But that aside, the shroud has an almost hallucinatory air: a green and glittering robot of semiprecious stone, assembled round a dummy. The blunt toes and plated wedge of a nose point at the roof, the eyeless head rests as though in a machine's sleep on its gilt bronze pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Dynasties Preserved | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...latter-day Cressida. After a sufficiently stunned introduction of echoing vibrato notes, the organizing riff enters. Page amuses himself by playing his guitar with a violin bow and follows this with the most involved solo of the album. After this the song dutifully falls apart, the lover, eyeless in Gaza, presumably reduced to tatters. "How Many More Times" is unduplicable for sustained, accumulating force throughout four distinct sections. Plant uses his "soaring eagle heartbroken blues" voice, bringing the song to an arresting climax with a long glissando on the word "gun," the latter instrument being both an expression...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Rock Freak Led Zeppelin II | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...like lip reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." But during the storm on the heath, Cobb's Lear gains in compassionate wisdom what he loses in pride and sanity. As he shelters the shivering Fool, listens to the gibberings of mad Tom and later gazes into the bloody, eyeless face of Gloucester, Lear sheds his vanity and learns of his oneness with "unaccommodated man . . . such a poor bare forked animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: As Flies to Wanton Boys | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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