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...Viet Nam film to be the best one so far. It is enough that Stone has devised a drama of palpable realism that is also a metaphor for the uncivil war that raged in the U.S. and can flare up anytime in any family. Indeed, at the film's molten core is the tug of wills between two strong men, outsize figures of shameless strutting charisma, for parentage of their platoon and for their new recruit, Chris. Barnes, the staff sergeant, could be Chris' legal father; Elias, the romantic renegade, could be a spiritual father, even after his death. They...
Adams resident Alvar J. Mattei '88 said the initial plans for the room were elaborate. "The committee was going to take base furniture, and cover it with latex so that the furniture would look like it had been covered with molten lava," he said...
...local governments to reject low bids on road work contracts from companies which do business in South Africa. Personally, I feel that only people crazy enough to carry on business there are crazy enough to work on American highways. No sane man would dodge speeding El Dorados to pour molten asphalt for a living...
...immersed in a giant pool of water. If the primary cooling system on PIUS fails, pool water floods and cools the core. A reactor being developed by General Electric, Rockwell International and Argonne National Laboratory is cooled directly by submersion in a pool, except that the liquid is molten sodium, which can absorb far more heat than can water before boiling away. Still, should some accident -- an earthquake, for example -- empty the pool, these reactors could conceivably melt...
Secretary of Education WILLIAM BENNETT at the Citadel, Charleston, S.C.: "Isaiah says, 'All our works are nothing--our molten images are empty wind.' There is support for theoretical pessimism. But practically, operationally, you should not bring such an attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer...