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...Several major papers changed longstanding policies and urged a coalition of one or the other of the major parties with the Liberals. The Liberals never managed to make much headway, however, let alone "change the face of British politics," as Thorpe had promised. "The country is going down the drain, and they are squabbling about the size of the plughole," the Liberal leader complained, but he failed to offer an alternative that many voters considered a sure drain stopper...
...architectural chic, but its sanitary appointments compare unfavorably with those of the Black Hole of Calcutta. When Jane sees Eva with her head in the oven, she assumes that Eva is cleaning the stove. Not so. While Jane takes over the stove scouring, Sidney copes with a stopped drain, and Ronald dances an electrocution waltz with some naked wiring, Eva sleepwalks her way fixedly toward suicide. She tries to jump out a window, impale herself on a knife, throttle herself with a rope, electrocute herself and take poison. Half dead with fatigue, she ends the act conducting the others, with...
...course the oil-deficient but otherwise potent industrial nations would never permit themselves to become impoverished. They would first act boldly through energy sharing and saving and political and economic boycotts to stem the drain of money and transfer of power to OPEC. If the major oil consumers form some common front, they may be able to meet with OPEC and negotiate a reduction in prices. The limited first steps that the oil importers have taken in the past few weeks may lead to that concerted action. In the meantime OPEC's members might want to recall the story...
...strands are mundane realities like dental appointments, plumbing repairs and dinner every Sunday with the in-laws. Then one day Johan tells Marianne that he has fallen in love with a young student in his university seminar and is leaving to be with her. All the blood seems to drain out of Marianne's body. Ullmann even manages to make her lambent sapphire-blue eyes turn pale. In the Mediterranean she might have howled. In Scandinavia, even emotional desolation is sculpted...
...embargo and gives the Soviets their only toehold in the Americas, is becoming increasingly burdensome to both Havana and Moscow. The Cubans owe the Russians at least $4 billion, and the debt grows by about $1.5 million daily. The Soviets would like to be rid of this economic drain, and now, in an era of détente with the U.S., they have apparently given up any hope-for the present at least-of turning Cuba into an offensive military base. Castro no doubt wants less reliance on the Russians and would probably welcome the departure of some...