Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets were proclaiming their success, reports were swirling in Moscow that the undertaking had suffered a setback. A fire at a compressor station in Urengoi, Siberia, was said to have damaged essential equipment. The Kremlin confirmed last week that the blaze had broken out on Dec. 15 in a pile of boxes lying on the floor of the station. The flames destroyed important electronic monitoring devices and control panels, but no one was injured. The Soviets denied that the accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry: "All the contentions...
That punch line from one of Reagan's favorite jokes (Confronted with a pile of horse manure, an optimistic boy digs through it cheerfully, proclaiming, "There must be a pony in there some place") may sum him up better than all the words that have been written about him. Nothing about the man endures like his optimism...
This fall, as Thayer struggled with the Pentagon budget, he was reported to be increasingly distracted by his growing legal problems. Budget decisions on matters ranging from new weapons systems to new uniforms began to pile up on his desk; by mid-December the stack was 18 in. high...
...death last week of Joan Miró, at 90, was a vivid reminder of the antiquity of modernism. The old surrealist, whose work was once so startling to received taste (a half-century ago, you did not give paintings titles like Two Figures Standing Before a Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive...
...Farmers Not to Produce Milk. No children. No milk. Nothing connects these items but the newspaper page on which both appear, and the reader's mind, ravenous as Pac-Man, prepared to bite off more than it can chew. In the evening, on television, more stories pile up. Gasoline Leaks Threaten Water Supplies and Sullivan is Electrocuted Despite Pope's Pleas. No water. No Sullivan. No visa: The Reagan Administration Rejects Visa Application from Nicaragua's Interior Minister. So goes the news on an ordinary day, a strange assembly that swoops down on one's life...