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...than ever before. Michelle has a contract to write a book. And Marvin Mitchelson, her lawyer, has received a $25,000 advance for a book of his own, and his law business has tripled. Its legal ramifications may be unclear, but Marvin vs. Marvin has proved once again that grime usually pays in Tinsel Town...
Three Mile Island's notoriety may dredge up much of the buried grime in nuclear power. Dartmouth president John G. Kemeney will head the Presidential Commission set to examine nuclear power, and he has promised a complete and careful inspection of the state of the industry. He will be under the careful watch of the public and the many outraged elected officials who have capitalized on the recent threat to national welfare as a vote-getting band-wagon ripe for boarding...
...these heights. The conclusion is a letdown, the magic partially dissipated in explanations. Birdy and Al are not above dime-store philosophizing, attempting to blame their wounds on their cramped pasts. Their recollections, in fact, sound almost idyllic, a Norman Rockwell vision of mischievous childhood with none of the grime and flavor airbrushed...
Like two other names now carved in marble, Carnegie and Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...
...communal hut, couples in hides and rough wool garments squat around the fire, spit-roasting a heavy pork leg and preparing sausages and black pudding made from skin, offal and gut. John Rossetti sheds his clothes, steps into a wood tub and begins to scrub off five days' grime with clay and hot water. John Rockcliff enters through the goatskin door, carrying a rat he has caught. It will be on the menu tomorrow...