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...overestimated. Streets clean, dustless and odorless would eliminate a greater part of the nervousness, distraction and strain of modern metropolitan life." A few minutes' application of imagination and arithmetic, putting together the collective impact of cars, people, noise and exhausts (even if many cars were then powered by steam or electricity), would have shown that if the first part of his projection was right, the second could not possibly...
...could produce highly wrought political caricature-Government, 1901, is a superb image of the state as machine, a cross between palace and steam roller, drawn years before the invention of the tank but moving blindly across a dead landscape manned by a gunner and some top-hatted diplomats, popes and kings. But his most memorable images were elegies of dispossession: of that dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent...
Smirking Androgynes. But the cast has little significance in The Music Lovers. Its arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture. In Women in Love, Ken Russell turned D.H. Lawrence into tinted steam. In The Music Lovers, he makes Tchaikovsky step to the Dance of the Sugarplum Inverts. Women are thoughtless children or carnivores. Men are smirking androgynes or long-faced straight men like Modeste, Peter's brother. A classic exchange has Peter saying, "Sixth Symphony, Opus 74. It's too cold." Replies Modeste: "I'll give...
...year into 52,000 tons of raw materials worth $833,000 on the open market. Among them: glass to help surface highways and pelletized paper to be used as a blend for fertilizer, insulation products and additives in pet foods. The plant's incinerators would also generate steam for sale to utilities. If a city of 200,000 built such a plant, says the association, the net cost would be $286,000 a year, compared with $910,000 for handling the same amount of refuse by present disposal methods...
...cord and detonating devices which had not been registered to them in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record." The little-known, 16-mile labyrinthine tunnel network in Washington is practically a New World version of the sewers of Paris?and potentially equally useful to an American maquisard. The steam ducts radiate from three key boiler plants in Georgetown, on Capitol Hill and near the Pentagon; on a recent recommendation from the FBI, all official maps of the tunnel system have been classified and access to most of the tunnels has been cut off to all but a carefully cleared...