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...keep LNG port facilities out of populous areas. The agency is still considering the request. On top of that, independent gas producers, who fear competition from imports, loudly argue that buying from foreigners would only make the U.S. more dependent for its energy needs on unreliable sources. Asks Dallas Gasman D.K. Davis: "Do you want Chicago to become dependent on Algerian gas so that they can shut the pipe some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAS: High Hurdles for Imports | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann break into still another diverting ditty, such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will break into still another diverting ditty such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...Gasman Goeth. Brenan lives in Spain-not because it is romantic but "because it is cheap"-surrounded by a 2,000-book library, writing distinguished books about Spain (South from Granada, The Spanish Labyrinth], and glumly accepting visits from old Bloomsbury friends like Lytton Strachey. What makes Brenan's story unique and the telling of it a rare pleasure is the one quality that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of men-his indifference to the opinions of others. In the cozy modern commonwealth of man, he never learned to snuggle up to his fellows. He had a hermit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Story | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...instance a gasman dresses up like an archbishop and makes one of the girls confess to him. Genet's idea is that the real archbishop, and other powerful men, are powerful only because other men imitate them in their fantasy lives. As the play continues, the masquerade gets more complicated. The pretenders become the men they have imitated, and their new power, in turn, depends on others who will imitate them. Mirror imagery and masquerade pervade every scene. There are no highpoints and no development; and the play never really ends, because the mirrors go on reflecting the same pattern...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Balcony | 2/28/1963 | See Source »

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