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Almost two hours before the gas escaped, a workman noticed that the temperature in the tanks was well above 100° F and rising steadily. As a result, pressure in the tanks was mounting. The worker tried to manually operate the mechanisms that were supposed to relieve the pressure, but it had already gone too high. He alerted his supervisor, and four colleagues donned gas masks and hurried to the scene. They too were unable to seal the tank; by then, all systems had failed...
Hawaii is the 50th state, and 50 of the world's leading photojournalists went there to illustrate A Day in the Life of Hawaii (Workman; 221 pages; $40). Fanning out through the islands on Friday, Dec. 2, 1983, the cameramen, including Eddie Adams, Gordon Parks and Douglas Kirkland, visited such disparate sites as a de livery room of a hospital on Oahu, the ranch country of the Big Island, a Japanese cemetery near Honolulu and the crest of dormant Haleakala volcano on Maui. The resulting kaleidoscope of scenery and characters, natives and haoles, shows an undiscovered country that, paradoxically...
Borrowing from the book business, both B. Dalton and Waldenbooks issue weekly bestseller lists for calendars. Topping last week's Dalton chart: The Teddy Bear Calendar (Workman). Its well-mannered bears at play will likely sell out the 390,000-copy printing. One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the '86 edition. Calendars of pinups and pine trees are favorites on everybody's list. The poster-size Sports Illustrated 's Swimsuit Calendar, featuring supermodels in torrid Caribbean settings, is third on Waldenbooks...
...time calendars work on words. At least half a dozen companies produce a variety of them, including one called Murphy's Law (Price/Stern/Sloan) and others for sports trivia, Bible verses, computer terms, astrological signs and even dirty jokes. The 365 new-words-a-year calendar (Workman) made both lists, with offerings like "Dionysian . . . recklessly uninhibited; frenzied." The success is in the format, says Publisher Peter Workman. "Each day they entertain, surprise and educate, like books you can savor piece by piece over a full year...
...Keaton) is recruited and trained by an Israeli intelligence team to penetrate a Palestinian terrorist organization in order to kill its leader, Director George Roy Hill (The World According to Garp, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) matches Le Carré's heavy spirit. He is a careful workman who does an honest day's labor for an honest dollar, but he lacks the capacity to astonish or, it would seem, to inspire. If the audience is to become suspensefully and emotionally involved, it must be made to feel a certain ambiguity about Charlie. It must wonder...