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...Isles as the scene of a 1951 colliery disaster in which 85 men died. For four generations, Easington miners have been bequeathing their picks to their sons. The town was founded in 1911, when the first shaft of the Easington Colliery was sunk into the rich coal seams that lace County Durham. The tunneling now extends for miles in all directions. To reach the end of the most distant coal face, which extends 51 miles offshore beneath the North Sea, the miners must ride and walk-and sometimes crawl -through the black holes and seeping brine for more than...
...show that was taped for airing this week features a sketch with ex-Footballer Jim Brown, now a movie actor. Geraldine, dressed up as a "Chicken Delicious" delivery girl in a micro-mini and lace-up boots, delivers an order to Brown. After announcing the product-"No fancy ribbons on our meat; what you see is what you eat"-she tries to persuade Brown to find work in the movies for her boy friend Killer, never visible on the stage but always present in her thoughts. "What is he doing?" Brown asks. "He don' do nuthin'," Geraldine replies...
...dream of antiquity becomes concrete in De Chirico's later work, and all his efforts are posited on the belief that somehow it can be given life -if not by talent, then by sheer will. De Chirico's self-magniloquent portraits in armor and 17th century lace are not simply costume pieces, but efforts to inhabit the dream and be a one-man Renaissance. His interminable pairs of Bambi-eyed horses prancing on a marble-littered beach have the same intention. The sum effect is, inevitably, absurd: for De Chirico has no more talent for illusionism than...
...thinking, a medical academician is also versatile. Plimpton, 53, can lace a speech with quotations from Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Baldwin and other famous non-doctors. Just after he took over Downstate, he participated in a five-day canoe trip in the waterways around New York City, battling the fringe winds and rain of tropical storm Doria and enjoying himself thoroughly. "Even if there were no human bodies broken loose from their concrete sinking blocks in the Gowanus Canal," he says with feigned disappointment. "Canoeing around Brooklyn opens up many new boundaries for head and heart. I recommend...
...Lace your own water with lithium! I live in Chicago, and I need every bit of energy and alertness that I can muster to direct in constructive and positive endeavors and to recognize and protest any such mindless suggestions as yours...