Word: blowtorch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty shadow into the wood. This scorching makes his pieces look even more like visitors from Down Below. You can laugh at the devil, but not too hard or long...
...Syrians or the Israelis. When the Lebanese President visited the U.S. in December, Administration officials bluntly told him to make peace with his opponents fast, or else wave goodbye to the Marines. "This time it sank in," says a senior U.S. diplomat. "Since then we have kept the blowtorch...
...regarded by some as a kind of Southern gothic erotomaniac. Williams dealt in taboos, yet the taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...Aubuisson, 38, has a reputation for terror that belies his boyish good looks and his present efforts to moderate his image (see box). A one-time armed forces intelligence officer, he gained the nickname of Major Blowtorch for his reputed skill at interrogating with that instrument. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert E. White, testifying before a U.S. Senate Committee, said that there is "evidence, if not 100% conclusive, that D'Aubuisson and his group are responsible for the murder of Archbishop Romero." White also linked D'Aubuisson to the right-wing death squads, a charge that...
...left Chicago streets hushed and nearly deserted. The most prominent and telling sound was the blare of sirens cutting through the frigid city air. Firemen fought eight major fires on Sunday night alone. One on the city's West Side, ignited accidentally by a homeowner who used a blowtorch to defrost his frozen plumbing, ultimately destroyed 15 houses. The fire department had to cope with frozen hydrants and bursting hoses as well as the wind-whipped fires. Retreating from a flaming house, one dispirited fireman kicked at a useless ice-filled hose. "We lost it," he growled...