Word: metallers
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...Brick and masonry homes with metal framing do not burn. Wood is the culprit - the fuel for fire. Building-permit rules should disallow the use of wood in all new construction. Communities in fire-prone areas should also think about stocking forested and undeveloped lands with goats. These creatures could devour the underbrush that dries and fuels firestorms. Firefighters could better spend their time tending the goats than periodically risking their lives on uncontrolled fires. The goats could become part of the firefighters' arsenal, as important as trucks, hoses and protective gear. As Californians rebuild, incentives from insurance companies could...
...production?AR: We’re the directors.RR: What inspired you to direct this show?NJ: Well, I think it started when Allegra and I saw “Cats” and then we thought what if “Cats” was staged on hot metal?AR: If we hadn’t done “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” we briefly considered doing “Kittens on Hot Metal,” which would have been the rated R version.RR: Tennessee Williams is said to have hated the 1958 film...
Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...
...focus is on the sheer pleasure of looking and comparing how different artists in different times and places have inventively [rendered] the same subjects: the human figure, landscapes, birds and animals, fish and flowers.” There are “drawings” incised in metal, stone and clay; “drawings” on glass; “drawings” on textiles; “drawings” on ceramics; even a “drawing” on a limestone flake. There are also more conventionally-defined “drawings?...
...could better spend their time tending the goats than periodically risking their lives on uncontrolled fires. The goats could become part of the firefighters' arsenal, as important as trucks, hoses and protective gear. As Californians rebuild, incentives from insurance companies could help defray the added costs of masonry-and-metal construction. With fewer fires in the future, insurance companies would stand to profit substantially...