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...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...
...their wares in the midwest, about five years ago, but made about as much headway as Abbie Hoffman would at a John Birch convention. Now the band is a mainstay of the New York scene, having made the big move several years ago. The New York press generally slag the band off as a low-budget model of the Tubes or as genetically defected punks, but New York fans know a good thing when they...
...years ago, at the request of the scientists and working entirely from memory, the Haya constructed a traditional furnace. It was 1.6 meters (5 ft.) high, cone-shaped, made of slag and mud and built over a pit packed with partially burned swamp grass; these charred reeds provided the carbon that combined with the molten iron ore to produce steel. Eight ceramic blowpipes, or tuyeèo a goatskin bellows outside. Using these pipes to force preheated air into the furnace, which was fueled by charcoal, the Haya were able to achieve temperatures higher than...
...declaration of intent by Jimmy Carter. It is the preamble to a presidential order he hopes to issue before the end of the year. For those who dwell in the world of red tape, which is most of America, the words shone like diamonds in a mountain of slag. The wisdom rivaled that of Solomon...
There was a sour moment one day when a crew member made the inevitable crack to Keaton: "Hey, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on." Brooks reduced the cur to slag, and Keaton survived. "The lady is tough," he says. "I think she must have a lot of anger in there somewhere...