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Five minutes after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector...
...manager in the waste-management group, is taking apart some Unistrut metal framing with a socket wrench. "Right now," he says, "I'm thinking of using this as a base for a water bed. I like to make things. A friend of mine is building a 35-ft. steel ketch, and he turned me on to metal welding. So I got a Heliarc." A steel ketch? In New Mexico...
...chains have been removed from our hands, the stitches from our lips," said Wilkie Edwards, a bus driver in the fishing town of Grenville on Grenada's east coast. The zesty beat of steel-band calypso music from radios and portable tape decks followed the U.S. military patrols as smiling Grenadians surged about the Americans. They offered the soldiers fruit and vegetables and serenaded them with guitars. Women rushed to embrace the young paratroopers. "I feel so settled; I feel so free," declared Linda Charles, a cashier in a reopened gas station in St. George's. With...
From the opening shots of the factories and steel mills, the movie clearly sets itself up as a forum for social commentary. The actual football games themselves are less important, the audience discovers, than what they represent to each of the characters. To the players, the sport symbolizes an avenue away from the Pennsylvania steel mills, where their families have worked since the town's origin. To the coach, who doubles as a typing teacher, football offers a means of working his way out of an underfunded, unsupported public school system where few kids get beyond high school. And finally...
...director Michael Chapman's willingness to confront seriously the social issues facing his characters. In fact, because he bravely tackles so many issues at once. All the Right Moves often seems more like a series of social statements than the story of an adolescent's struggle to escape the steel mill mentality...