Word: gluts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karloff's monster is stiff-jointed and barely verbal; Mary Shelley's monster is quick on his feet and can speak like a Romantic poet on an off night: "I will glut the maw of death until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends." Similarly, most popular dramatizations of the novel have singled out the Faustian side of Frankenstein's quest: the monster is his punishment for seeking too much power...
...relationship between Butch and his wife (Jill Eikenberry), who must, because Sundance is wounded, cease their wanderings and sample the pleasures of domesticity. If, in the end, one finds the movie attenuated and a little self-indulgent, it is still an amiable entertainment, its modesty a relief from a glut of hopped-up action epics...
...been "contrived" by anybody, it has been by the 13 members of the OPEC cartel, who have reduced crude-oil pumping 7% to 10% in support of the 14.5% price boosts they have imposed so far this year. The cutbacks have turned last year's world oil glut into a global shortage, which the resumption of exports from Iran has not relieved. U.S. imports, which now account for half the nation's oil consumption, are running 8% below two years ago, when demand was much lower...
...movies, bountiful booze, great food and beautiful people all converge under the sunny skies of the Cóte d'Azur. Would that it were so. In reality, the festival is a grotesque trade fair. The few good movies are mobbed; the best restaurants are overbooked; traffic jams glut the countryside; it often rains. The festival celebrates money, not art, and only the industry's hustlers seem to have fun. For anyone else, a day in Cannes is like a week in Vegas...
...merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device after another to prevent price-disrupting swings between glut and shortage...