Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials concede that most of these workers will not be recalled, even if the economy recovers. Says David Herlick of Woodhaven, Mich., a Ford worker who was laid off 15 months ago: "There's no light at the end of the tunnel. There's just a big iron gate...
...soon as I turned the corner onto St. Peter Street, a pounding in the chest that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
...churches, music (bowling and unions came later) and rooted them in a home. Detroit has a high concentration of owners of single-family homes. Take Hazel Park: block after block of the American dream turned into one-story frame houses with chain-link fences, white ruffled curtains and wrought-iron posts holding up aluminum porches. They sell, in selling tunes, for $28,000 to $42,000. Imminent bankruptcy haunts the shopping streets, but in the homes-crowded, some of them, with relatives out of work-they try not to let on they are worried...
Wilson, the only American in the physical sciences to join the elite Nobel circle this year, cracked a puzzle involving one of the most basic phenomena in the universe. At different pressures or temperatures, matter changes: water boils into steam, iron bars lose their magnetism, rock-hard metals melt into gooey paste. But as matter approaches these so-called critical points, its physical properties fluctuate so wildly that even the most powerful computers were unable to describe its behavior exactly...
...sparks of wit and entertainment. It's more of a therapeutic treatment, which director Paul Warner has created to force a brutal awareness upon the vulnerable audience. The result leaves us dazed as we retrack our way from the play's hidden theater, which Warner dubs. "Behind the Iron Door of Adams House...