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Soccer is traditionally crude, and it attracts roughs, drunks and roarers. It cannot be discussed in pubs without passion and obscenity. It is certainly not a gentleman's game. Even its subtlety and skill have failed to recommend...
...prices. Under the complicated oil pricing system, the four American oil companies (Exxon, Texaco, Standard of California and Mobil) that have part-ownership of Aramco will have to "buy back" 60% of Aramco's daily output at 93% of the posted price, raising the market price of Saudi crude by about $1 per bbl. But when the Saudis take complete control of Aramco, they will have to set directly whatever price they think suitable-and the world is waiting to see how low it will...
...woman's urine on the street--he went into a frenzy and ended up inexplicably donning some of his wife's underwear. All of this--even if safely banished to a past behind Tarnopol telling how he told Spielvogel about it--still leaves an impression of twisted relationships and crude impulses in conflict that is not easy to forget...
...Secretary of State alternately massaged the Israeli negotiators and pressured them. "If there is no agreement," he would tell them, "you will not be blamed. The American people will understand. You have been forthcoming." But then, according to one Israeli Cabinet Minister, would come the pressure: "Not direct, crude pressure, but the kind of pressure that says 'I will leave for Damascus at 11 o'clock. Give me your position.'" Privately, Kissinger told the Israelis that he was pressuring them because he was being pressured himself. He sighed: "You should see the cables I'm getting from the President...
Working with stone hammers and crude huairas, or wind-draft casting furnaces, the Indian goldsmiths attained a level of technical skill that seems no less amazing today than it did in the 16th century, when that consummate metalworker Benvenuto Cellini is said to have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal...