Word: dorado
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This is the new Siberia, an eastern El Dorado whose riches promise to make the Soviet Union of the 21st century the wealthiest nation on earth. Since the first oil well gushed forth in Tyumen province in 1960, Siberia has been found to contain the largest gas and oil reserves of any country in the world. Almost every day brings new discoveries. Geological maps are outdated as soon as they are printed. Scientists now believe that the entire region, equivalent in size to all of North America, is like a giant raft floating...
...legends of modern art-its El Dorado, both in riches and inaccessibility-belongs to the U.S.S.R. It is the stupendous collection of early French modernist painting amassed on trips to Paris by two Russian millionaires: Sergei Schuhkin and his younger friend Ivan Morosov. After the revolution, Schuhkin fled to Paris, where, stripped of his capital and without his collection, he survived until 1937. Morosov died in 1921 in Carlsbad...
...banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen. At the voting booth, they may well heed the Gaullist charge that "the Socialists and Communists promise you El Dorado, but they'll give you Chile...
Back in Memphis, Isaac Hayes is a more secular hero, but nonetheless a hero. "Hey, Bubba," the white owner of a propane gas station calls as Isaac cruises by in his turquoise El Dorado. "You gotta give me an autograph for my daughter; she doesn't believe you used to work for me." Isaac signs, then nods to a friend: "I used to wash cars and mow the grass around here...
...often said that Mitchum is a fine actor who has seldom had a role to really challenge him. He has been extraordinary at least twice: as the deranged preacher in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter and as the inebriated deputy in Howard Hawks' El Dorado. In his multitude of other roles, he has mostly looked sullen and talked tough; one has the sense, watching him, that he thinks acting is a hell of a way for a man to earn a living...