Word: piled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed required for their 90-sec. trip round the world. After all, spacecraft orbit the earth...
...inventions can be brandished publicly and still fall short of the awful truth. Coover handles the rather limited demands of this artless form with ease. Those who are amused by gross fantasy will find much to admire in The Public Burning: Supreme Court Justices slipping and sliding in a pile of elephant dung; an aspirant to the presidency being sodomized by Uncle...
...pivotal role of Colin, Eli Wallach outdoes the customary reliability of his performances. Immunized against reality and insatiable in his do-gooding instincts, Wallach's Colin is an atomic pile of innocence. T.E.Kalem
...there is a protest by Britain's working-class children, who have no memory of swinging London and cannot find jobs. Detractors of punk would argue that these children are coddled by a very expensive welfare state and are feeling sorry for themselves. Still, the Sex Pistols' pile-driving Anarchy in the U.K. is an anthem of despair. The British punk bands are a community linked by anger and frustration. They are, within the music world, a rebuke to the bourgeois excesses -and smooth musical stylings-of such stars as Elton John and Peter Frampton...
...current study, whether the world starts running short of oil to power its machinery as early as 1981 or considerably later in the century depends primarily on how rapidly the Saudis choose to pump out their crude. And high prices for the petroleum have given the Saudis an enormous pile of cash-reserves rocketed from $0.7 billion in 1970 to $27.8 billion last April-that confers tremendous leverage in world finance...