Word: steeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leverett student demonstrated what might happen if a bum attempted to sleep on the grates. Leaning back like a Limbo dancer across the sabotaged ironwork, he found himself tumbling on the cold concrete. Everybody laughed and examined the structure. Look at those steel bolts. Solid. Soddered tight. Fresh coat of paint too. Reinforced steel...
...that we're off the cold diagonal bars of University action, back onto the flat warm city-steel surface of heat and common humanity, it's time to do more than offer the barest, basest minimum of community charity. When we begin to congratualte ourselves for allowing homeless men to continue to take refuge on ventilation units, we have begun to reconstruct the inequities which put them there...
...with a loud, ominous clang. You take off your jacket and shoes and give them to a guard to inspect. After walking through a metal detector, you are patted down by the guard--who even checks your mouth. Then you put your shoes back on and wait for a steel-barred door to wheel open...
Unfortunately, in the hip, personality conscious 80's, married couples don't get back together after they've been divorced. They go their separate and sometimes adulterous ways, as does blue-collar steel worker Harry Mackenzie (Gene Hackman) in Twice after he meets up with Audrey (Ann Margret), the new vamp/bartender in town, on the night of his fiftieth birthday. (Of all the unromantic places in which to meet up with one's future lifemate, a run-down neighborhood bar takes the cake...
...film tries to show how dad's deflating marriage makes daughter Sunny rethink her own marriage to an unemployed steel worker. We don't see much reevaluation/reconsideration going on, just a lot of bitter recrimination and vociferous shouting matches between Sunny and her father, climaxing in the staple confrontation scene, as initiated by Sunny, between the three members of the romantic triangle...