Word: slag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapel, a couple unfurled the union's banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left to us now is the victory sign...
...dominance of the town by the steel company is plain. Smokestacks and giant ventilator shafts are visible for miles, and waste slag sits in heaps around the townscape. A billboard proclaims
...destroyer. Detonation in midair has made radioactive fallout negligible, and people close enough for immediate doses of radiation first succumb to other injuries. More than 250,000 Detroiters were within 2½miles of ground zero; nearly all are now dead. Pedestrians and drivers are incinerated in a molten slag of cars. Skyscrapers burst and fall. Nearly 20 sq. mi. of the city are leveled...
...arms. And the announcement last week that the Administration was reversing field on those policies and had decided to ban mineral development on national lands looks increasingly like a ruse. In fact, the great turn around may actually make it easier for industry to transform America into one great slag heap...
...niche as a middle-class mortician. Tom (Jim Metzler) is tall, quiet, athletic, a reluctant ladykiller; he goes to Viet Nam and brings back a native wife and two children. Danilo (Craig Wasson) is Tesich's maturing self-image: breezing through high school and college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country. All three boys have Georgia (Jodi Thelen) on their minds-a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic, who thinks herself the avatar of Isadora Duncan and lopes through...