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...some 250 years iron has been made by charging a blast furnace with ore, limestone and coke. When a blast of air is shot up through the furnace, the burning coke turns the mixture into a molten mass which separates into iron and slag. In the Madaras "direct-reduction" process, the ore is laid down in a bed minus the coke and limestone, hot hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide are pumped through it, smelting out the iron...
...admittedly perverse tastes, for he is drawn only to what he calls "nymphets"-near-adolescent girls of mysterious characteristics and an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm." The insidious charm of Dolores, whom Humbert dubs Lolita, lurks in the eye of the beholder, for she is a Coke-fed, juke-box-operated brat with a headful of movie mags for a brain. To stay close to her, Humbert marries her widowed mother and is ready to murder mamma when a passing Packard does...
...hard for most students to realize just how far poverty can drive a boy. One youth from the Dunster area told of stealing coke bottles from University buildings to collect the deposits and go to a show. "If it wasn't for those two cent bottles," he said, "there would have been several hundred less times that I would have been able to go to the movies...
...early scenes, the camera roots like an indifferent hog through a heap of white trash in the Deep South. In a rotting mansion on the Mississippi flats, in an upstairs room filled with dolls and hobbyhorses and empty Coke bottles, a ripe-bodied young woman lies curled in a wrought-iron crib and sucks her thumb as she sleeps. This is Baby Doll Carson McCorkle ¶Carroll Baker), who "had a great deal of trouble with long division . . . and never got past the fourth grade." In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty...
...reciting a dark poem or just telling a dirty joke, has won skillful performances from his veterans. Maiden and Wallach, and from Newcomer Carroll Baker, of whom the public is certain to hear a great deal more in the next year or two. As Baby Doll, she is the Coke sister of Southern folklore, all the way down to the bottom of the bottle...