Word: brims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of high prices and energy-conservation measures, world oil demand has been running so far behind recent production that storage tanks in Europe and Japan are filled to the brim. But instead of cutting the prices that they quadrupled last year, oil exporting nations are reducing production in order to keep the prices up. In the past two months, Kuwait has cut production 20%, and Venezuela has trimmed significantly too. At a meeting next week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to approve a coordinated production drop of at least 10% by all twelve members. Even Saudi...
...virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
DESPITE THE MYRIAD accounts of frustration or failure, Crouse's pages also brim with success stories. His biographical resumes of the "heavies" are executed with the clipped regularity of the photo machines that for a quarter will dispose of your physiognomy in train stations. And of course, there are the classic stories...
...human subjects, painted looking away or from the back. There is more to these poses than literary anecdote, though they dwindle to that when Wyeth's delicacy falters. But at his best, his images become hermetic, despite their apparent candor; a peavey or a hanging cornhusk seems to brim with undisclosed biography. When the elusiveness at the core of his imagination reacts with his virtuoso power of rendering the soberest nuance of light, texture and weight, Wyeth becomes a formidable artist...
...when an artist of the Kano school (1543-90) produced the magnificent screens of Namban traders arriving in Japan that the Imperial Household Collection lent to New York's show, he took great care with detail: the cloaks, the baggy pantaloons, the rakish curly-brim hats, the mustaches and the grotesquely long noses of the foreign barbarians are meticulously set down. To us, it looks like caricature at first. To the lord Tokugawa, who is believed to have commissioned it, it almost certainly...