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...battle is not yet over. The pipeline's developers must now contend with environmentalists, who object to slurries because of the vast amounts of water they would drain away from areas that are already water-short. The Houston Natural Gas line would consume enough water to supply 40,000 people for a year. Company officials counter by saying that no drinkable water will be used. Their intention is to drill for brackish or saline water unfit for human consumption or agriculture...
Anyway, it was $15 down the drain, which, added to the five I had to shell out to get my picture in the yearbook, puts me in the red. So I need the money, and I'm coming...
Allen is always certain the drain will get plugged up and, sure enough, it does. Keaton has so far presented a less vividly defined image to the public, but there is something at once willful and flaky about her-she does not play realists...
...stands -shakily-beneath the Coney Island roller coaster. It is all in hopeless contrast with her Wasp Middle Westernism. When the pair finally get to L.A., Allen refuses to see it, as most recent movies have, as merely spaced out. To him, it is actively malevolent-the biggest clogged drain of them...
...that threat just set the stage for McEneaney's explosion, and the chance for the upset went down the drain...