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...players he has used ever since: cinematographer Frederick Elmes, sound-effects ace Alan Splet and, as Eraserhead's high-haired Henry Spencer, actor Jack Nance. "It seemed like we were never going to finish the film," recalls Nance, who plays henpecked Pete Martell in Twin Peaks. "We had to scrap an awful lot, and we failed an awful lot. But we were kids then. Now we're old." Fortunately, the film found an audience. With its loping internal logic and its unapologetic otherness, Eraserhead soon became a hit on the midnight movie circuit...
Filmmaker Ken Burns, director of acclaimed documentaries on Huey Long and the Brooklyn Bridge, has collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...
...proposal to build the Inner Belt--a massive highway around Boston which would have destroyed the square--put the area's future in doubt for the next two decades, until massive community opposition forced the state to scrap the plan...
Some Angelenos theorized that kids were filching the things in tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who use manhole covers for shields. The least plausible idea was that someone was stealing the covers for money. After all, a manhole cover only commands at most $6 as scrap. Yet when the case was solved last week, that theory proved right. Most of the missing covers turned up at a scrap-metals yard, and cops collared two culprits, dubbed the Manhole Men, with a pickup truck loaded with more manhole covers. They were charged with grand theft and receiving stolen property...
...step -- a ban on mobile land-based MIRVs -- has become an active issue of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. A treaty outline is being rushed to completion in time for the May 30 summit in Washington. If Bush's proposal makes it into the START agreement, the U.S. will scrap its plan for moving 50 MX missiles, with ten warheads apiece, from silos onto railroad cars, while ! the Soviets will demobilize 20 of their new, mobile SS-24s, each of which also packs a ten-warhead punch. But will the Soviets, who have recently taken a tougher line on START...