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...Sensation. The textbook characteristics of Fauvism are familiar enough: the bright, dissonant color, the crude urgency of surface, the distorted drawing and the love of brisk, apparently raw sensation. But there was no unifying doctrine, as with surrealism, nor even a strong common practice, such as the cubists found. "One can talk about the impressionist school," the Dutchman Van Dongen later remarked, "because they held certain principles. For us there was nothing like that; we merely thought their colors were a bit dull...
...crony and writer of the film that made Redford a superstar, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His work was apparently both very good and very bad. He licked the narration problems posed by the book, carving a straight, simple dramatic line. But he also put heavy emphasis on crude news room humor. Bernstein was quoted as saying that the script read like a Henny Youngman jokebook. Another reporter retitled it Butch and Sundance Bring Down the Government, while Bradlee recalls it as "a caricature of us?tough-guy reporters...
...second album, "The White Sport Coat and the Pink Crustacean," is probably the pick of his litter. It has several of his best wry vignettes, and the rudest of the crude underground hits he'll be remembered by: I really do appreciate the fact you're sitting here Your voice sounds so wonderful But your face don't look so clear. So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw...
After almost two years of delay, American oilmen sat down last week with Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani to arrange a complete Saudi buy-out of Arabian American Oil Co., the free world's largest crude producer. But they kept a tight curtain of secrecy around the five-day meeting at the plush Bay Point Yacht and Country Club, near Panama City, Fla. As most of the negotiators-including executives of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard of California, the four American partners in Aramco-made for their private jets at the conclusion of the meeting, they refused...
...long-term guarantee that they can buy a fixed proportion-amount unknown-of Aramco's output, currently 7.5 million bbls. per day, and will grant a discount on the oil. The four firms will pay as much as 22? per bbl. less than the going price of Saudi crude, currently $11.51 per bbl. An additional 4? to 5? per bbl. will be knocked off the price as part of the fee that the companies will receive for continuing to provide technical and managerial skills the Saudis sorely need to operate their wells. To handle these tasks, the oil firms...