Word: subterraneanly
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...Australian (Sam Neill), a German (Heinz Bennent) and a French-German-Algerian-Turk (Isabelle Adjani). Alienation is, not surprisingly, all. Adjani bickers endlessly with Husband Neill, flirts with the mysterious Bennent, and wanders the deserted streets under a sky clouded with portents of apocalypse. One day, in a creepy subterranean walkway, she is seized by violent cramps, writhes about and delivers a glutinous hunk of protoplasm...
Maas builds his story cinematically, cutting swiftly from malefactor to investigator, from scandal to expose. Marie is destined for the camera, and parts of it already seem clipped from All the King's Men and The Godfather. Chapters over flow with whispered depositions, missing files and subterranean intrigue. Three key witnesses are professionally murdered; a fourth commits suicide under suspicious circumstances. The Justice Department declines to prosecute Blanton. Claims Maas: "It was already clear that in 1980 Jimmy Carter would need every electoral vote he could scrape up. The President might not like the Governor, but he was stuck...
...sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best of them are stethoscopes detecting sounds often unheard: the diminished pulse beat of a love gone sour, the anxiety beneath male bravado, the hum of appliances in a lonely woman's flat. One must listen closely; Aznavour's charisma...
Dense Pack depends on many calculations and assumptions, most of them untested and untried, perhaps happily so. If only one of them proved wrong (for example, that the U.S. can build silos and subterranean communications centers able to withstand the effects of a nuclear blast), Dense Pack might fall apart like a house of cards. And scientists are all too familiar with that law of Mr. Murphy: if anything can go wrong...
...offer is accepted, the firm will have to install a computer-controlled file locator system and conveyor belts throughout the tunnels in order to turn them into a vault. Cost: an estimated $2million. Despite those expenses, subterranean storage is expected to cost only $1 per sq. ft., compared with up to $50 per sq. ft. for aboveground space...