Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What son of a bitch dumped this shit in front of my place?' ...it seemed a pile of filthy rags. But it was a man. Dead...
...product of this arrangement is a hot, even, slow-burning fire; about 30% of the heat generated inside the slot eventually streams out into the room. There is another bonus: it is easy to light. A conventional fire requires a pile of kindling, a few balls of crumpled newspaper and, frequently, several matches before it will catch. Often it burns for half an hour or more before it starts dropping coals and throwing off substantial heat. Because his arrangement traps heat so well, Cranberg can light even damp wood with only a few sheets of newspaper, placed directly...
Eventually the hills fade and the woods become piney, and you can tell you're near the Gulf of Mexico when the cumulus clouds start to pile up on horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
...printed on a single strip of celluloid. These virtues are related: the structure would not work without Kubrick's sustaining mastery of the camera, lighting and composition; the images would not be so powerful if the director had not devised a narrative structure spacious enough for them to pile up with overwhelming impressiveness...
...fire broke out in a fourth floor hall of D-entry, when cinders taken from a fireplace ignited a pile of newspapers. Jennifer Mohr '78 and Jennifer Kiratli '78, occupants of the room the ashes came from, said last night that they had soaked the embers with water and left them for two hours before disposing of them...