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...mine in Utah, at two miles wide and a half-mile deep, the largest excavation in the world, alone has produced copper-over 11 million tons-than any other mine in history. The Climax mine near Leadville, Colo., last year supplied 49 million lbs. worth of molybdenum, a blue-gray mineral used primarily in strengthening steel. Mines in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho led the Mountain States in production of lead ($49 million) and zinc ($24 million) last year. Silver and gold, those minerals that helped build and bust 19th century boom towns like Goldfield...
...face it--there are 19 bowl games between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl--football is forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
...difficult to be a nai'f; art is too available. Grandma Moses was not un touched by commerce, but nobody could doubt the integrity of her work or the delicacy of her imagination. She was a graceful colorist, seldom candied or sentimental, and never coarse. In those blue-gray distances of field and forest, punctuated by the silhouette of a horse (the creature's profile cut like a weather vane, as though by shears) or the bright red caesura of a barn, one sees the equivalent of perfect natural pitch in singers: an instinctive truth of tone...
...Sundays on his backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain seems to have only recently been introduced to his family, that his wife (Olivia Hamnett) is rather oaken, and that Chamberlain, who supposedly grew up in Sydney, hasn't a trace of an accent--because things are about to get rolling...
...given for its appearance aren't too terribly plausible. There is a magnificent scene which sets up the wave, the highpoint of the film: Chamberlain is in his car and daydreams that the wave has hit and as he looks outside he sees well-dressed pedestrians floating beneath the blue-gray water, groceries floating slowly upwards. But this scene occurs three-quarters of the way through the movie, and it is all downhill form there. The vague moral dilemma of Weir's explanation is unconvincing. But then again, how could it be convincing? One is supposed to empathize with...