Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Lutheran Minister D. Douglas Roth last November defied his bishop and refused to leave his church in a depressed steel town near Pittsburgh, police were called in, and Roth was jailed for 112 days. Last week a church synod voted 499 to 33 to defrock the still outspoken minister. It was only the second such action in the 22-year history of the Lutheran Church in America. Said Nadine Roth, his wife: "I guess we're like any other unemployed family...
...when they first see the sculpture -- that they have somehow wandered onto an unsightly construction project -- the controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc was understandable. Commissioned by the General Services Administration at a cost of more than $175,000, the unbroken 12-ft.-high wall of rust-patinaed steel stretches 120 ft. across Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, forcing thousands of pedestrians to hike around it. Since the installation of Tilted Arc in 1981, more than 7,000 office workers have signed petitions demanding the work's removal. During a series of public hearings last March, numerous artists...
Economists and executives in other industries are more divided on the likely impact and merits of the tax-reform plan. Aside from real estate, the plan would weigh most heavily on "smokestack" industries such as steel and autos with heavy investments in plant and equipment that could no longer qualify for the investment tax credit or speeded-up depreciation write-offs. These are the very industries threatened most by foreign competition. The plan, said a Ford Motor Co. statement, "will have an adverse effect on capital formation in the creation of new jobs in the industrial sector . . . Overall...
...live in another world where life and death are memorized./ Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes"), and images of fleeting beauty that turn into signs of prophecy ("Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel...
...heavy police convoy, Mehmet Ali Agca arrived in a high-security courtroom in Rome last week, presumably to tell a jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst in the opening moments of the trial of three Bulgarians...