Word: cullinan
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Texaco grew from one great gusher. In 1901 Joseph Cullinan, a former Standard Oil employee, found black gold on Spindletop Hill, near Beaumont, Texas. The next year he formed the Texas Co., and by 1928 it was operating in all 48 states. Texaco ventured overseas in 1936, when it teamed up with Standard Oil of California to market Middle Eastern oil. It also bought an interest in California Arabian Standard Oil, which held a major concession in Saudi Arabia. That company later became Aramco, a consortium that joined Saudi Arabia and American producers...
...interesting or useful was Director Francis Cullinan's decision to cast a man, Bill Murphy, as the overbearing Lady Bracknell, Algernon's audacious and obnoxious aunt. If the aim was for some unusual dramatic effect, by the play's end this effect dissipates as Murphy becomes sufficiently convincing as a woman...
Dialogue like this provokes continuous laughter, but its empty and flat quality leaves little impression. Even if Cullinan wanted to stress Wilde's intent to write a superficial, light play, his emphasis on plasticity goes overboard...