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...automatically dismissed as uninteresting, somehow began to recount a tale of wandering barefoot and starving through wartime Russia with her little boy, begging for food and shelter. And there is the vague memory-did I invent it ?-of hearing my own grandmother tell a story of hiding in an oven while the Cossacks rode through her village in a pogrom...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Sophie Portnoy's Complaint | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

...murky depths of the Scotia Coal Company's No. 1 Black Mountain Mine, 108 men were at work one morning last week. Suddenly, four miles from the tunnel's entrance, a violent methane-gas explosion ripped through a passageway, shaking the pine-studded mountains of Oven Fork in southeastern Kentucky. Nine men died instantly. Six others survived the blast for a time with their portable air units. But apparently thinking their way out was blocked, the six shielded themselves from fumes with pieces of canvas and awaited rescuers; they were found dead of suffocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at Black Mountain | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1976: You, Too, Are Spiro Pavlovich | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Anyone hearing these lines now cannot help being reminded that three months after recording them, their author put her head in a gas oven. But as Elizabeth Hardwick has written, it is a mistake to view Plath's poems in the light of her suicide; like all good poetry, they stand on their...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The White Heat of Plath's Voice | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CRIME WAVE | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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