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...holding sessions which last until 10:30 p.m. Reardon described the sessions as a careful balancing of viewpoints on what would be the best class. "One thinks there aren't enough mathematicians, another thinks we don't have enough all-around kids, and another thinks musicians really get the shaft...
...leaders of anti-busing movements "succeeded in convincing these people that the white community is getting the shaft, and suffering the injustices associated with busing," Bullard said...
...context, even if often separated, and in fascinating detail. And maybe the needless universalizing of a local way of life happens because the writer is genuinely moved by people managing to stay human in such dehumanizing circumstances. The first day that Dan Sizemore drives Vecsey to the mine shaft where hundreds work, the reporter is amazed by the roads. Driving through Appalachia plays hell on a car, anyway--mud and garbage all over, trucks barreling around tortuous curves without guard rails, heaved-up pavement everywhere. But the drive from the Sizemore house to the Big Ridge mine is frightful...
...entity which is Antigone, binding together and bound with a classical simplicity, unity and harmony. The simple, symmetrical set, designed by Gary S. Gluck, is exploited to its full by Forrest Stone's lighting, which catches the most delicate mood and tone changes in the script. In one small shaft of light illuminating her and her captor, Antigone spends her last living moments with the guard who arrested her. Here she realizes that, after all, she no longer knows why she is dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation...
...club heads, manufacturers have concentrated their weight as low as possible - adding power to even a duffer's swing. But for the final balancing of clubs - necessary to give a set of irons uniform "swing weight" - manufacturers until now have had to load the bottom of the shaft with bits of lead. Now Shamrock Golf Co. of Los Angeles has devised a technique for placing that additional weight in the club head itself - right at the "sweet spot" where metal meets ball (see cut). Shamrock leaves a hollow slot in the head, then fills each iron with a precisely...