Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...molars; and the "red of aggression" that appears in a slum child's eyes is easily confused with the "red of weeping." Naipaul is constantly turning things inside out--people's clothes, their bodies, their thought--until what is apparent is shown to be merely the comic strip veneer...
...Again like many jazz musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown...
...STRIP-MINING. The coal industry in the past has been roundly condemned for strip-mining coal and then simply abandoning the ravaged land. Nowadays, the record is far better; by spending between $600 and $6,500 an acre, mining companies have restored some land in the Midwest and Pennsylvania so well that no one would suspect that the acreage had been stripped. In contrast with those areas, which are well watered, much of the West's coal lands get less than 10 inches of rainfall a year. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences doubt that fragile desert vegetation...
Congress's answer has been to design a strip-mining law that sets stiff standards for reclamation of mined-out areas: if the land cannot be restored, it cannot be mined, period. President Ford has twice vetoed the bill, arguing that it would cut coal production, throw 36,000 people out of work and also raise the price of coal. In his eyes, each state should enact surface-mining laws to suit its own needs. Congress is unpersuaded, though, and will try to push the same measure through this year...
...could have been the easiest money Oberlander had ever seen, but he refused it. "We've got some of the best land in the world," he says. "It's a way of life. I want to be able to pass it on to my children. Once they strip the land, it will be scars for centuries to come...