Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about O'Neill. Rather, he sacrifices a small amount of detail and scope to share with us the cardinal doctrines of O'Neill's philosophy, With this purpose in mind. Berlin is able to use evidence from Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy and Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into places where others were forbidden to look, but at least the reader can hear the hellish reports...
...poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these people cease to masquerade as stereotypes...
...sacrifice and community: "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill o' beans in this crazy world." Idealism and its bride ascend into heaven on the Lisbon plane; Rick goes off in the fog with Louis, men without women, to do mortal work in this world for the higher cause...
...partners in some great car and subway chases through the streets of San Francisco. The photography, music, plot, characters all come together in Chinatown for the incredibly thrilling end. The Indian, the psychopath, Murphy and Nolte stalk each other by the eerie glow of the neon lights through the fog. The final explosive shots are in slow motion, and put 48 Hours on a par with Dirty Harry, White Lightning and The French Connection. With fast action, violence, urban realism, 48 Hours unites the best elements of escapism...
...acidic "depositions," as scientists call them, can come down in almost any form, including hail, snow, fog or even dry particles. On the standard chemical scale for measuring acidity or alkalinity, they are defined as having a pH level under 5.6 (a neutral solution has pH 7). Despite the use of tracking balloons and other sophisticated techniques, it is difficult to link acidity with a specific smokestack. But there is little doubt about the damaging effects of acid rain. Absorbed into the soil, it breaks down minerals containing calcium, potassium and aluminum, robbing plants of nutrients. Eventually the acid enters...