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Congratulations on presenting a glimpse of the darker side of the exploitation of the Rocky Mountain high [Dec. 15]. Too many folks out here have the blindly optimistic notion that all this "progress" is a wonderful thing. Actually we are exchanging our wilderness, our water, our heritage and our very special way of life for a bunch of money that is bound to dry up when our minerals give out. Not much of a bargain, in my eyes...
...President-elect, though, also faces a darker side of the energy situation. Total U.S. crude oil consumption this year is about 16.8 million bbl. per day, and 6.7 million bbl. of that is imported. Despite their heavy drilling, oilmen are finding fewer gushers. By 1990, U.S. oil production will have diminished by about 20% from current levels. Thus, the U.S. will continue for most of the decade to be vulnerable to Middle East petroleum cutoffs and exorbitant OPEC price demands...
...world is for men, where do women exist? If women exist only to be angels, what of our darker thoughts? Some of Gilbert and Gubar's conclusions inspire shouts of "Eureka!" Snow White, for instance, isn't an Oedipal struggle, but a feminist one. The two women--sweet, passive Snow White, and the evil, active Queen are simply mirror images of each other, and the battle is not to win the man but to reconcile the two sides of the feminine psyche. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages...
...Youngman seems to be as enduring as his jokes. His hair has thinned, his back and shoulders are perhaps more noticeably hunched, the bags beneath his eyes darker and deeper. But time hasn't altered him much. The black suit with the silk lining, the stiff bow tie: the image is intact. And so are the jokes...
What happened next typified the darker side of Harvard's almost entirely pleasant afternoon. With eight seconds showing on the clock, Harvard got off one play and was called offsides. In the ensuing confusion, the clock ran out and Cuccia's fake went for naught. Harvard went to the dressing room leading, 12-0, but sorely disappointed. "Time wasn't the factor there," Restic said afterward, "we just didn't get it done...