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...Tired of waging a pre-Promethean struggle with stubborn charcoal? Caloric of Topton, Pa., has produced a gas-fired grill that looks like the standard charcoal brazier but uses gas-heated, long-lasting ceramic briquettes. The grill runs off gas cylinders that last all summer or is hooked up directly to the house gas line. The meat still has that cherished charcoal tang, because the tang actually is produced not by the charcoal but by the dripping juices going up in smoke. (Socalled "charcoal-broiled" steaks at restaurants have been cooked with gas-heated briquettes for years.) About...
...Epps knows many worlds, and his sensibility and intelligence--both prodigious--are fragmented. His mind is made up of many unconnected facets and regions, and it gleans insights as a piece of quartz catches the sun--in glints and flashes. All of his writing seems to me a Promethean effort to focus these glints and flashes into steady ray. When he succeeds, the results will be overwhelming, for they will represent that rare synthesis of intelligence and experience which marks the work of all significant social scientists and critics...
...Promethean Professors...
LUTHER, by John Osborne, may scant the towering Christian, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards...
LUTHER, by John Osborne, may not be everyone's conception of the towering Christian who started the Reformation, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards...