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...woman who had a relationship with Sokaluk was also the target of public anger after photos were published of her wearing a firefighters jacket and toy angel wings; news reports claimed she had a dog named Miss Pyro. Her family issued a statement pleading for the harassment to stop...
...metal cliche known to man. The original bassist, Cliff Burton, died in a horrendous 1986 tour-bus accident. In 1991, seven years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band put out its own black album. A year later, lead singer James Hetfield was nearly immolated onstage by some bad pyro. Metallica has even committed the ultimate sin of heavy-metal piety: the classical album, with the sheepish help of some cellists in the San Francisco Symphony...
...Pyro glosses over its terror with a sort of Hitchcock-and-bull story photographed in Spain in flamenco hues and laved in bucketfuls of blue butane gas. The film casts Barry Sullivan as a philanderer who becomes a firebug when cast-off Playmate Martha Hyer sends his house up in flame. His wife and daughter dead, Barry survives, a hideously deformed monster with a "carbonized" brain. Crazed, hunted, vowing fiery vengeance, he hides behind a mask that inexplicably looks just like his old self. To keep the movie's audience from straying out for a smoke, there are some...
...slowly and carefully, has obviously weighed each word for accuracy and appropriateness, has listened for its value and effect. In his most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...
...Today about 30,000 workers turn out $150,000,000 worth of munitions and pyrotechnic devices yearly. The biggest fireworks manufacturer, Un excelled Manufacturing Co., reported a gross profit of $900,000 (net $188,000) for last year, compared to a 1939 deficit of $44,000. But normally much pyro technic-making is done by small shoe string operators, and they are getting their cut of war work...