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Eight hours a day, five days a week, Mike LaVelle, 39, works as a hot-pipe bender in a Cicero, Ill., shop. Wielding a 16-lb. sledgehammer, the workman packs sand into lengths of straight pipe that are then heated and bent with a winch. When he isn't twisting hot metal, LaVelle is sweating over pencil and paper as the newest regular columnist in the Chicago Tribune stable...
...Jean. Moliere kicks sand in the face of the romantic hero in the New Phoenix Repertory Company's bright. Broadway-bound production...
...proportions. But Rafelson dissects it into a series of chic vignettes; she throws a tantrum over rusty bathwater, is glimpsed through a bedroom door, naked, giddily squirting a watergun at a cowboy costumed Jessica. Tear-streaked, she burns her beauty aids with funereal ceremony, mourns her Maybelline in the sand, and ends by chopping her hair off with distraught, mechanical motions. Why is unexplained, lost somewhere in between Lazlo Kovac's dazzling photography and Rafelson's shortcutting. Understatement has degenerated into amorphousness. And Sally's final hysteria is just a sheen of sensationalism polishing off Rafelson's neat surface...
...best when condemning the inconsistency of the American conscience. In the essay on "The Kent State Massacre" Bond rages eloquently at the illogic which focused national attention on the Ohio killings while the blacks who perished at Jackson State a scant ten days later, had their epitaphs scribed in sand. Bond also resurrects the often-forgotten point that school busing is "an old practice in virtually each of the fifty states." On ecology: "Picking up beer cans from the highway is touted as proper social activism by the Nixon Administration, while the corporate murderers who continue to manufacture filth...
...what local newspapers have grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...