Word: heaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap of Christy's body...
...extract gold from such low-grade deposits, miners must crush tons and tons of rock, which is piled into mammoth heaps and irrigated with cyanide. The cyanide percolates through the heap, extracting the gold. In the early days of the invisible-gold rush, a ton of ore might contain a few tenths of an ounce of gold. Today that minuscule amount would be considered high grade. Says Livermore: "They're mining deposits that we would have considered waste rock back in 1961." Nevada mines are now digging up a ton of rock to get back as little...
...Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst...
...women, led by sophomore center forward Robin Johnston's four tallies, crushed Columbia, 6-0. The Lions are not exactly the cream of the crop, top of the heap, or A Number One, but the win was still impressive...
...strikes sparks with a movie audience keen to believe that a son could have a game of catch with his dead dad. In The Untouchables, No Way Out and Bull Durham, he defined new horizons for the '80s screen hero. Now he is on top of the movie heap, and he knows exactly why. See SHOW BUSINESS...