Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just ego. Behind Zimmer's ego is not an ounce of superego, just a whole bunce of id. Id like the Red Sox dugout exploding onto the field after they win the 1979 American League East title; id like the Boston Globe printing a photograph of his dough-and-steel visage on their front page above a smiling Yaz: "We killed 'em," the headline quotes Zimmer; id like a city holiday and a parade to City Hall where the ecstatic young women of the town hoist the simple manager onto their shoulders. The truth is, any Boston sports fan would...
...exotic, others as familiar as moonshine stills and windjammer sailing ships-are beginning to come on stream to conserve fuel and produce energy for the 1980s from unconventional sources. Clever inventors and canny investors see prospects of becoming instant energy millionaires. Long stagnant industries such as coal and steel stand to recover and prosper. Resource-rich regions can expect to surge as new plants and mines start up and create jobs...
Carter's program, which resembles the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's 1975 plan for a $100 billion Energy Independence Authority, would profit many companies, small and large alike. Any rush to build synfuel plants would bring new orders for makers of steel, drilling-equipment tools and construction machinery. Says Julian Ward, vice president at Houston's Brown & Root construction firm: "Any company with design-engineering and construction capability is going to have a part of this thing-it's so big. The spending would sop up the entire U.S. petrochemical-engineering know...
...more emotional in its dedication than in its musicianship, however. Mitchell's lyrics for Mingus' sometimes abstruse music get a little toplofty, and her sidemen-Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius are among the most renowned-stay so aloof and mechanical the record turns to stainless steel...
Freedman's concept has been aided by Robin Wagner's settings and Michael J. Cesario's costumes. Wagner, who did the sets for Kahn's 1973 Caesar here, has this time designed a huge three-dimensional grid of steel rods. Walls, glass panels and movable furniture slide in and out as required. The effect suggests a technological society surrounded by steel and glass; the only color is gray...