Word: liquidation
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...miles of barbed wire fence surrounding Dow's plant, 4500 acres of land. "The largest industrial complex in the country within one fence." 700 smoking buildings. Miles of ground-level piping. Miles of overhead piping. Hundreds of vats, some of them 40 feet in diameter with a soupy green liquid bubbling inside...
...Beck plays a horn blast. Amid all this discord, Beck, stroke of genius, does a willowing eddy of tune straight out of B.B. King. An abrupt stop again, Beck thumps the side of his guitar and bounces on his knees, Waller slams down harshly twice, Beck reels off long liquid strings picking up the early song tune. He starts a long uncoiling flourish with flickering electronics breaking the flow. Waller trundles mildly on the drums, Wood plays briefly on bass, Hopkins plunks furiously on piano and Beck is rolling in the background playing what sounds like a 20's melody...
...love to hear an audience applaud, but you can't take an audience home with you." "I can't go-not like this." As Nick Arnstein, Fanny's hard-luck gambler husband, Omar Sharif, of all people, is only required to stand and listen with large liquid eyes. The rest of the cast is simply a Jewish chorus of ooze and ahs mimicking Yiddish locution by ending declarative sentences with a question mark. ("He has polish on his nails...
Taken together, as Barth urges they should be, these fictions interreact to produce a series of constantly changing and enticingly illusive forms. Like the sea god Proteus, who avoided foretelling the future by changing his form every time he was pinned down, Barth keeps his artistic assets as liquid as possible...
...reason some doctors continue using the liquid is the widespread belief that it can be made safe by subjecting it to ultraviolet radiation and storing it for six months at 86°-90° F. Many physicians also believe that plasma substitutes are in short supply. Neither assumption is true, say the American Red Cross and the Greater New York Community Blood Council. Salt solutions and synthetics such as dextran are plentifully available. So is serum albumin; although extracted from plasma, this can be filtered and heated sufficiently to make it noninfectious...