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...Sylvia's inferno deepened, Jenny testified, she made one desperate, futile attempt to flee. She had got as far as the porch when Mrs. Baniszewski dragged her back in and beat her across the face with a curtain rod. Marie Baniszewski, 11, told of Sylvia's last day of life: "She was still alive and breathing because I went over to say hi. She tried to say hi back, but she didn't have the energy to. She waved her hand and moaned." A few days earlier, Sylvia had told Jenny: "I know...
...BASIC OXYGEN FURNACES. Developed in Europe, the oxygen process is now catching on so fast that it should oust open-hearth production as the U.S. norm by the end of next year. As a spectacle, the oxygen furnaces of such firms as Bethlehem, National, Republic and Kaiser out-inferno Dante. When a pipelike lance stabs the molten iron with a Mach 2 jet of high-pressure oxygen, the cauldrons burst into a maelstrom of 3,000° metal, boiling noxious smoke and spewing fireworks. The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell, all the while lashing out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
...always been a country in love with the future. Americans have never quite shared the traditional notion that prying into tomorrow is suspect if not downright dangerous-the sort of feeling that made Dante consign soothsayers to the fourth chasm of the Inferno. On the contrary, the U.S. readily accepted the fact that modern science established progress as a faith and the future as an earthly Eden. Yet recently, the American passion for the future has taken a new turn. Leaving Utopians and science-fiction writers far behind, a growing number of professionals have made prophecy a serious and highly...