Word: hulk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...
...that any building higher than seven stories is liable to become a towering inferno, without taking into account all the contrary evidence--that none yet has, and that what was wrong with the Tower was its poor construction, not its design. Yet we are asked to see the charred hulk of the Tower as a symbol of something more. "Maybe we should just leave it standing like it is," says a dejected Paul Newman, "as a monument to all the bullshit in the world...
SOMEWHERE in the second act, when Peer Gynt is stranded in the desert and offers half his kingdom for a horse, the stagehands accommodate him with a painted wooden creature that might have had trouble fitting through the gates of Troy. As its hulk lumbers forward, all eyes turn to the horse, Peer pauses, afraid that the thing might suddenly topple over, and you begin to wonder who's in control--the props or the actors...
Leaving the parking lot, the bus passes old Sullivan Square station. Large abandoned hulk in its final humiliation it might at least ever kept its dignity intact informality it powerless no digits to start with, Bus passes under the ancient, rusted treacle of the old Orange Line. Maybe the new Orange Line's a good idea after...
...film, after the last flame has been doused, Paul Newman surveys the ruined hulk of his skyscraper. He suggests allowing it to stand as "a monument to all the bullshit" of our age. Probably The Towering Inferno should be placed on permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian for the same reason...