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...This is my favorite place on earth," declares Carl Heider. The place is 108-sq.-mi. Mount Desert Island, midway up the Maine coast. Heider, a retired New Jersey teacher, helped set up the family "camp" at the island's COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC 10 years ago, and has returned every summer since to help kids and grownups learn about the environment while enjoying Maine's rugged beauty...
...problem wasn't size - after all, Exxon and Mobil last year combined in an $80 billion deal. Rather, according to the Federal Trade Commission, it was the fact that the combined entity would own 70 percent of Alaska's oil fields, giving it a monopolistic hold on West Coast gasoline prices...
...about $6 billion. The court, in turn, was expected to suspend court hearings indefinitely, with the FTC vowing to sit back down with the firms and make a good-faith effort to hammer out a deal. Of course, this is all still cold comfort to drivers on the West Coast who, for a different reason - OPEC production controls - are currently paying nearly $2 per gallon...
...this show, but another and equally beautiful small picture is: Paranoiac-Astral Image, 1934. On a vast and otherwise empty plane of beach flat as a billiard table, four images are dispersed. A fragment of an amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded boat, another woman, probably his muse and wife Gala, confronts a boy in a sailor suit who can be none other than Dali himself. And on the left, the hated...
Even Stoppard's most accessible works (The Real Thing, the movie Shakespeare in Love) fairly reek with erudition. Invention, having its U.S. East Coast premiere at Philadelphia's Wilma Theater, is no exception. Eloquent and witty, it's also intellectually challenging. On one level, the play is about A. E. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth. It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry). There are some snooze-inducing stretches dealing with English...