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...VITTORIO TAVIANI'S The Night of the Shooting Stars has all the qualities of a wonderful folktale--at once pungently earthy and dreamily fantastic. It unfolds to the leisurely rhythms of its own peculiar inner life and logic. It's a magical film, where the horrors of war, the crude beauty and humor of everyday existence, and the wonder of childhood all intersect in a flash of dream and memory...
Since late 1973, when OPEC jacked up its charge for a barrel of oil from $3.07 to $11.65, crude prices have moved mostly in one direction: up. The big question, especially after the 1979 Iranian revolution ignited a wave of increases that pushed the official price from about $13 to $34, was: How high would the price go? Now the question is: How far will it drop? The answer, as ever, is: Nobody knows...
Your withdrawal of Bloom County on Monday represents a casual disregard for the fundamental issues of journalistic responsibility and a crude and apparently deliberate misreading of the intent of the strip itself...
Both businesses and consumers will benefit from the oversupply of oil and the first big break in energy prices in the past decade. Efforts by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to prop up the cost of crude by curbing production have collapsed, at least temporarily. As a result, said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, the official price of OPEC oil may fall from $34 per bbl. to $28, which would shave a percentage point off the U.S. inflation rate. James McKie, an economics professor at the University of Texas, maintained that unless OPEC regroups...
...author might have fled long ago, literally and literarily. Instead, Munro still lives in Clinton, Ont, and, in her prose, dwells with contagious affection on the Saskatchewan plain and on the poky small towns and industrial cities of western Ontario. Hanratty, for instance, is "such a narrow place, crude without the compensations of the wilderness, cramped without any urban variety or life...