Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that you live in a house with two servants, or in an apartment with only one, need not imply that your house lacks charm or even distinction, or that it is not completely the home of a lady or gentleman...
...drilled over a period of perhaps 13 years. While the Mexicans do not belong to OPEC, they are able to exact a high price ($13.10 per bbl.) for the oil that they sell, most of which goes to the U.S.; naturally they plan to step up production sharply. In fact they now hope to triple their oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day by 1980. Though that is only about one-seventh of what the Saudis ship every day, it is impressive for a country that a few years ago was importing...
...could mean a further increase in prices from 2? to 4? per gal. In the past year, the average price at the major companies' stations has risen from about 62½? per gal. to more than 67? some Manhattan gas gougers now charge more than 90?. Given the fact that OPEC is about to raise the cost of crude oil again, and that this may add 2? or so to prices at the pump, for most U.S. motorists 1979 will clearly be the year of 70?-plus...
...gloomily expected to die young, like Seurat or Beardsley. In fact he lived on to a great age, until 1944; but the main themes of his work were all set forth well before World War I, and it is on the period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally...
...house and its inhabitants is crucial: things could not go wrong the way they do in the presence of prying neighbors. Also necessary is a large quantity of cement, an empty trunk in the basement and, later, a sledgehammer. Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless logic of expediency. What they do is less a comment on them than on the hairbreadth that separates the civilized from...