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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worried, singlet-clad mime in the lower half and, above it, the cold, oppressive ziggurat of an art deco-style New York building. The film noir dramatics of Longo's work are tuned down, and a subtler pathos comes through, the surprise being that Longo was able to extract it from such obvious cliches as the Urban Clown and the Faceless Skyscraper...
This was not the first time that Guernsey had dealt with the intricacies of state and government bureaucracy. He spent his first two years after law school working for the State of Mississippi in a program designed to extract child support from recalcitrant fathers. Guernsey says, however, that "it turned out to become a collection agency [for the state...
...charge. They are not so naive any more. In Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon & Schuster; 248 pages; $13.95), the two examine competition in American business. The rise and fall of the Real Paper is but one of the case histories that they crack open to extract the techniques of corporate survival...
...that spans 4.6 billion years. Beginnings and middles can get lost in this world without end. Geology, which never tires of repeating itself, is oblivious to the need for plot and moral. Despite quakes and eruptions, the earth is agonizingly incremental, and McPhee must use all his skills to extract its story. On the reluctant process of diamond formation: "They want to be graphite, and with a relatively modest boost of heat graphite is what they would become, if atmospheric oxygen did not incinerate them first. They are, in this sense, unstable-these finger-flashing symbols of the eternity...
Carbon-dioxide injections are just one of a panoply of methods for pepping up senescent wells. All have arisen because conventional pumping can extract only about one-third of the contents of a field before the flow stops. When oil prices were still rising, experts predicted that enhancing techniques could more than double U.S. recoverable reserves, which now stand at about 30 billion bbl. But some current projections are for an increase in reserves of closer to 50%. That would still be enough to keep U.S. wells flowing into the middle of the 21st century...