Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feast. As the car plowed through a snowstorm along the turnpike, Rubinstein gaily sang along with the car radio in a voice that sounded like a gargling cello. He pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes...
Antonioni recognizes the beauty of that silence, as well as the enormous beauty of the factory itself. But, as Giuliana tells her son, the yellow sulfur flame from a smokestack, so similar to a candle, is intensely poisonous. Perhaps the world of the white-frocked scientist will be better than what has gone before it, perhaps there are dangers we do not recognize. Only one conclusion is clear: man has created his new environment and now must accept the consequences...
...dome will be strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could possibly happen inside, and it will be tight enough to keep any trace of radioactive gas from reaching the outdoors. In normal operation, except for diluted gases discharged up a 500-ft. smokestack and harmless amounts of waste washed away by the swift currents of the East River, no trace of radioactivity will escape from the plant. Says Harland C. Forbes, Con Ed's board chairman: "I think it represents the ultimate in safety...
...Andelot Belin, another Council member, noted that the city is eager to have the thirteen acres developed so that the land will be taxable. "The city needs revenue. The City fathers see all those tax dollars going up the smokestack if Harvard gets the land...