Word: slag
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...shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland, sitcom America...
...unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap of Christy's body...
...round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream plaster. Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss the grace notes of his other buildings: no orange carpet on the roof, no replicas of Zen sand gardens done in furnace slag and fused bottle glass. By Goff's standards, this is almost a rational building -- essentially two cells of galleries anchored by towers sheathed in green quartzite, their circular roofs slung on cables from structural frames whose horns resemble torii, or Japanese temple gates...
Outside the house, the slag heaps waited...
...area that has been buried under a slag heap of red tape has been the environment. As part of his attempt to cut through this morass. President Reagan has made available substantial portions of previously preserved lands for development. To answer critics who complained of dwindling resources. Reagan said last March that "there is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge." Though the U.S. Forest Service places the figure at about 30 percent, the back yard of the Reagan memorial will have the 500 million acres of trees previously thought...