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Q BEHIND THE SCENES CONT a melting ice-lolly must be constantly twirled. Careful as jugglers rehearsing a new routine. they pass the hot. unwieldy bars from hand to hand. thrusting them at intervals into the furnace. precariously dropping one piece ofgoo onto the other. then spinning the red jelly blobs into blossoming green shapes. Tools for manipulating this tough. malleable medium stand in buckets ofwater. Great tongs designed. it appears. for a family-size twin-tub; wooden blades like sawn-off canoe paddles; wicked-looking forceps which chew through the molten glass as if
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76 The List 24 November — 7 December 1989