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...share with three mischievous younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under...
Just when Americans were getting used to cheaper gasoline at the pump, prices have suddenly started to creep up again. The reason: a developing squeeze on worldwide petroleum stockpiles and supplies. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia, the largest single oil producer in the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have combined with a continuing rundown of excess inventories by oil companies to start wiping out the price-depressing effects of last winter's oil glut. Says Claude Messinger of Ashland Oil, who was the chairman of a gathering last week in New York of the American Petroleum Institute...
Poor Hendrik (yes, a terrible sympathy for him does creep in). He cannot even distinguish between acting on a stage and making appearances for the party at public functions. Both are, after all, performances, to be relished for the gratifying attention that is focused on him. Many actors have had fun and won admiration by playing bad actors. Few have dared what Brandauer accomplishes: showing us a good actor responding to the same neurotic drive for the center of the stage, the immortalizing role. His is a great performance, nothing less...
SOMETIMES Nye dodges the fallacy, allowing meaning to creep in with the names and painting one side of the name instead of trying to reduce an ocean of meaning to an eyedropper. In "Clarence," she follows the thread of landscape as it spins out from the names of places. A Mayan hieroglyph means "sky", but not only sky-in the Guatemalan sky there also fly-or flew-quetzal birds, the source of ancient Indian folklore and mystery. Nye brings the bird naturally into her sky. She traces the connotations of each image down through the rest of the poem...
...term "uncompromising attitude" and its synonym "intransigence" often creep into the political vocabularies of those who find it easier to reduce the complex Arab-Israeli conflict to a simple issue of Israeli stubbornness...