Word: pulping
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Potential Disaster. In previous years, moreover, when the state legislature tried to enact strong antipollution bills, local industry-especially the pulp and paper companies-hinted that the cost of cleaning up might force them to leave Maine entirely. "Payrolls or pickerel" became the dilemma's label; fish killed by water pollution represented the minimum price for keeping industry and jobs...
Last week the Iraqis outdid themselves. Sixteen people were executed by firing squad or gallows for plotting against the Baathist junta of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, which seized power in 1968. "All conspirators will be crushed to pulp," cried Al-Bakr. Baghdad radio punctuated its attacks on "reactionaries and deviationists" with a new musical number titled No Mercy Any More. In subsequent days, 21 more alleged plotters were executed, in addition to seven Iraqis accused of helping the CIA plot a coup last year. So far, 98 people have been done away with since the beginning...
...truth is that Americans have done far too little to tame the polluting effects of technology. Even the far reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...
...Such a fragile theme could easily have been ground into pulp, but Salter is a film maker of discretion. He includes too many scenes of motoring and picnicking, but he has a laconic facility with dialogue and an eye for the small gesture that can transform a scene from an actor's project into reality. Sam Waterston is a superb young naturalistic performer, Robie Porter is convincing and human in an unsympathetic role, and Charlotte Rampling, all angles and sensuality, is that rare thing, a beautiful woman who can also fairly be called an actress...