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Betty Ford's crude, unwarranted remarks about Nancy Reagan typify the mindless, permissive drivel we have come to expect from that dancer turned counterculture apologist and defender of public immorality...
Increased Dependence. In fact, the U.S. has become much more deeply hooked on imported crude, and the trend appears unlikely to be reversed. Imported oil presently supplies an astonishing 41% of U.S. needs, v. 29% before the embargo. And because Canada and Venezuela have been cutting down on oil exports, almost all of the recent increase in U.S. needs has been supplied by Arab countries; their shipments to the U.S. have doubled in the past year and now account for more than 12% of American consumption...
...artists in America 200 years ago. Limning, as painting was called, was a trade, like ropemaking or wheelwrighting. To most of the itinerant "house, sign and fancy" painters, it gave a meager living. They shifted from town to town in New England, setting down in wiry outline and crude, flat tones the tight lips and beaky noses of parsons, housewives and merchants. There were no art schools, let alone an academy, and the demand for big canvases of history and myth-which, across the Atlantic, gave art its public necessity-was nil. Europe was very far away...
...about clearly recognizable figures in the not-so-distant-past, you could even say that his plot is more ludicrous. He starts with a quick summary of the 1960s: President William Curry (Harvard grad) dies in a plane crash and is succeeded by President Esker Anderson (who "exudes...a crude inelegance" and decides not to run for reelection). The main story begins with the presidential campaign between Republican Richard Monckton and former Vice-President Edward Gilley...
...Sirius system is situated in the constellation Canis Major. Only 8.6 light-years from earth, it includes the brilliant Sirius A-the Dog Star - and Sirius B, invisible to the naked eye and first seen by telescope in 1862. Yet crude Dogon drawings have for centuries depicted what Temple concludes is an ac curate rendering of the relative positions and movements of Sirius A and B. It is from B that he suspects superior beings came to earth, leaving behind evidence of their godlike existence that has filtered down to us through mythology and a few artifacts. Temple suggests...