Word: pylon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite some serious flaws, a largely successful undertaking. The huge cast is, with very few exceptions, able and often exceptional. Mitchum, overaged and overweight as he is, is real and rocklike. As the actor says, "Pug sort of functions as a pylon at an air race. Everything revolves around him." Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent...
...area of aircraft maintenance, the panel suggests that the agency increase its surveillance of airline mechanics, making use of frequent and unannounced inspections at airline maintenance facilities. (Improper handling of the DC-10's engine pylon mounts during routine maintenance caused the damage that led to the calamitous engine loss in Chicago.) The report also recommended that at least for engineering work, there should be a centralized organization with facilities and staff large and attractive enough to lure people of the highest technical competence to the agency's ranks...
...isolated from each other. It's a little hard to tell from models how things will look, but it's clear enough that each artist received a section to fill individually. Harvard ends up with stained glass, Hadzi's found objects, and (at Brattle) a twenty-foot brick pylon. Porter Square gets the gloves, the boulders, a mobile, and a huge granite ripple. Art remains object, isolated appendages tacked onto architecture...