Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter who falls into Burt's clutches. The movie, which is due for release next year, gives Reynolds his first chance to direct, and Co-Star Hutton, at least, says he did all right. "He was able to accept ideas from the actors; he even accepted some of mine," she reports. And what about that love scene, Lauren? "I kept asking for retakes. It was the only scene we shot more than once...
...distances between cities become greater, too, in Virginia, and it's possible to engage in elaborate highway strategy aimed at avoiding speeding tickets. A friend of mine subscribes to the Radar Screen theory, which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
...Sliding down banisters. (A friend of mine tells me that the two best in the University are in Sever and in Med School Building A. There isn't actually too much real exercise involved in this, but these banisters are so slippery that the experience is bound to bring on waves of adrenalin rushes...
...know that there are women coal miners? Novice Miner Susan Miller, 25, says cold cash prompted her descent from a sewing-machine factory into the depths of Freeman United Coal Mining Co.'s Orient 6 mine at Waltonville, Ill. For her $42.75 daily trainee's pay, double her former earnings, Miner Miller works the coal belt, builds support partitions and sprays rock dust to prevent fires from coal fumes. Co-worker Mary Siefert, 38, a divorced mother of three who was the first woman on the job last August, says she was not trying to prove anything...
...spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing. Her debut record, like her wild-eyed poems, reveals an artist who is gifted but undisciplined. Leading off with Gloria in excelsis deo ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"), her dark voice projects a tough, fragile, street-girl image. The showcase number, Horses, invokes Rimbaud and glorifies mutilation ("He opened his throat, his vocal cords started shooting like mad pituitary glands"). One of Smith's chants is "gotta lose control," but if she acquires a little, she could...