Word: flux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle of the World, steady and bright and acted with well-modulated intensity by Carlisi and Leotard, is on less certain ground as political metaphor. The movie begins with some narration about political flux and the process of "normalization" that gives the plot a somewhat schematic cast. Tanner takes trouble to establish the class differences between the two lovers, but he is better at dealing with sexual politics than theoretical ones. The Middle of the World is truer as object lesson than tract, better on the realities of love than the stalled struggle of the classes...
...worst is never painful; their timing and intonation wring laughter from even the most hackneyed routines. And as their relationship grows, the play fortunately grows with them. The comedy becomes less superficial, more an organic product of the characters' grouping attempts to find stability in the midst of flux. Coupled with the increasing richness of the humor-and this play is in parts very, very funny-is an underlying layer of sadness, an awareness of the inevitability of change in a world where "it seems like it's just one damn thing after another...
...placed in large, saucer-shaped pits. When winter rain flooded the pits, the lighter malachite swirled to the surface and could be more readily separated from the other rock. Half a mile away there were 13 furnaces, where the Bronze Age metallurgists smelted the ore, using iron as a flux (a substance that combines with impurities, forming a molten mix that can be easily removed). Bronze Age miners were able to produce 22-lb. copper ingots that were 97% to 98% pure, a degree of purity not exceeded until modern times...
...LABOR-MANAGEMENT time bomb is ticking in anticipation of the November 12 expiration of the current United Mine Workers contract. The confrontation promises to burst into a protracted strike with potentially crippling effects on the American economy. The strike will climax the present period of flux in the relationship of the coal industry to the national economy. This changing relationship has been caused by rapidly rising oil prices, which have given coal new importance as an abundant source of energy. The increased importance of coal has given the U.M.W. new leverage in contract negotiations, and the Union hopes to close...
...after a while, after enough stops along the way, the endpoints of past and future, of Detroit and New Orleans and Seattle and Baltimore, fade away, and the unfolding of the road itself becomes the important event. And so, perhaps it is only while traveling, in a state of flux and transition, that the American finds his identity, a fleeting identity which is all present and which dissolves as soon as it is constructed. We reach our destination and the present begins to recede into a new past...