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These tiny plants, fertilized by nutrients in sewage and by the runoff of farm nitrates, explode into prodigious "blooms" that can cover entire lakes with a pea-green coat. When the algae die, they sink and decompose, depleting the lake's supply of oxygen and hastening its "death"-as has happened in Lake Erie...
...string of 19 banks, most of them in Michigan. But the Parsons Group foundered during the 1970 recession. Parsons was all but wiped out and forced out of banking. Even under new management, the flagship of his operation, Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth (B.O.C.), continued to sink into deeper trouble. Last week the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation felt obliged to start a $60 million rescue operation-only the second and by far the larger such lending effort in the agency's 38-year history...
...show went on. At one end, three nude young people splashed happily in a kiddies' plastic wading pool. At the other end, Actor Kevin O'Connor (Tom Paine) performed the bathtub scene from Sam Shepard's play Chicago, a scene of despair and rebirth. At a sink, two housewives talked about which detergent was purest...
When the play opens, Said (Robert Jackson), the poorest of the poor, is about to marry Leila (Janet League), the ugliest of the ugly. He steals a coat and lands in jail. She steals in order to be with him, and after that they sink from degradation to degradation. The war quickly takes center stage, with the French soldiers presented as dandified homosexuals and the rebels as little better. The language of the play is unrelentingly anal. As no great surprise, Genet finally advocates acts of evil as the only liberating force either against the old order...
...expressed in just reading poetry or listening to poets reading on phonograph records. He decided to take the plumbing out of his house and completely replace it with poetry, and so he did." The poetry of John Donne replaced the pipes, Shakespeare the bathtub and Emily Dickinson the kitchen sink. The minor poets replaced the toilet. Then the lover of good verse ran into some trouble. When he went to the toilet the minor poets began gossiping about their careers. He decided that the poetry simply wouldn't do as plumbing but it refused to be replaced...