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...mannered creator of Lilies was out to make the most brutal film of the year. And all in the name of artistic integrity. No one bothered to question this senseless escalation of violence on the screen. Say Fred, did you see how Nichols got that guy's guts to spill out in Catch-22? D'ya think you can improve on that...
...hours passed, the B.U. concert gained momentum easily, the music apparently giving off energy in one way or another to the crowd, who let the music move them, unable to listen without letting motion spill out of their bodies, without clapping and flashing their hands in the air and dancing. "The great thing about the Dead." explained one disciple, "is . . . like, you can have these wicked cosmic thoughts and dance at the same time. Really spiritual and really sensual...
...suspended from several pitons. They usually climbed from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., and during the entire ordeal found only three ledges wide enough to stand on. There were two falls during the ascent: Harding cut his hands and legs after a piton gave way; Caldwell took a similar spill, "slithering down like a ride in an amusement park." Both men were in good condition...
...fire and explosion at Chevron Oil Co.'s Platform Charlie, 30 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 13), caused the worst offshore oil-well spill in history. For three weeks, a dozen underwater wells spewed up to 1,000 bbl. a day of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a 50-sq.-mi. slick. The Government accused Chevron, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, of failing to install legally mandatory storm chokes and other safety gear that would have shut off the wells when the platform exploded. Last week, in U.S. district court...
...boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest points: riverbeds. They paint a stark scenario of rivers, black with crude oil, flowing to the sea with dead fish, birds and animals...