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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies ripping off their customers? As the gyrating price of crude sends quakes through the world economy, consumers and politicians have hurled angry accusations that Big Oil is using the crisis to maximize profits. Those suspicions only grew stronger last week, when several leading oil companies reported that their earnings rose sharply in the July-September quarter. At Phillips Petroleum, profits more than doubled, to $178 million. Unocal's earnings were up 53%, to $121 million. The Justice Department and the Senate are investigating oil pricing. And some legislators, notably Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, are calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: We Gave at the Pump | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...fanaticism in their lives, the directors have a responsibilty not only to recognize it, but to flesh it out. But in this play, there is no theatrical middle ground--if Javerbaum underplays his role, Munger and Wolkenbreit more than compensate with their overacting. Munger's portrayal of the crude misogynist, Karl, is far too simplistic; he wears a foolish leer on his face throughout the play. Wolkenbreit flatly renders Soot as the stereotypically silly woman...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: Durang's Family Tragedy | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

...idea that "low" sources somehow debase the integrity of "high" art is moonshine, of course. It always has been: Goya's Caprichos, for instance, draw heavily on folk proverbs, crude popular drama and 18th century (mainly English) caricature. Miro was inspired by comic strips and folk scatology. And Philip Guston in the 1970s was able to attain his measure of greatness as a tragic painter only through a free, uncondescending use of motifs from George Herriman's great strip Krazy Kat and the underground comics of Robert Crumb. Nor can MOMA be accused of pandering to mass taste by exhibiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Upstairs And Downstairs at MOMA | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...current gyrating cost of crude is the single most volatile factor in the world economy's fate. Since the Iraqi invasion, the price of oil has nearly doubled, to a spot rate of $37 per bbl. at the end of last week. America's monthly bill for imported oil has risen in proportion, to an estimated $7 billion, with the increase acting as a depressant on the economy. The price of regular unleaded gasoline has climbed 27 cents a gal., to $1.35, since early August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Shook Up | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Worse yet, the SPR, unlike similar European reserves, contains 65 percent high-sulfur "sour" crude, which requires more sophisticated refining. With the takeover of Kuwait, the U.S. lost one of its primary refining centers. This means American refineries will have to take up the slack...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: When Good Politics is Bad Policy | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

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