Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Swedish Academy announced the literature prize in October, Seifert was in the hospital suffering from diabetes and a heart ailment. He has now returned home, but can move about only with the aid of a metal crutch. Too frail to travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took...
...commutes to her job at a hospital in a 1984 Chevy S-10 pickup. Says she: "A lot of women are driving trucks now. It's the thing." Cheek finds her truck handy for carrying groceries and hauling tree trimmings to the dump. She plans to add a metal cap (average price: $270) to cover the open back of the truck so that she can shelter her belongings and use the vehicle to sleep in on camping trips...
...Metal biscuits with ears...
...drama is about loss and negation, so, understandably, Beckett prescribes the simplest production possible. Director JoAnne Akalaitis stages the A.R.T. Endgame in a subway tunnel filled with metal barrels, debris, and a putted subway car. The subway lights, and those of the wrecked car, still illuminate the tunnel. Contrary to Beckett's designs, incidental music by Philip Glass introduces and embellishes the production...
...real defense against terrorism can be said to exist, it must be in the realm of prevention. Airport metal detectors and reinforced barricades are the surface-level deterrents, but still more important is a reexamination of this country's image and actions abroad in light of terrorist motivations. White House officials have charged that the Iranian government did little to help end the recent crisis, thereby thwarting any hope of promptly ending the incident, but we have heard little about why the Iranians withheld their support...