Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Graffiti was shot in Techniscope, a wide-screen process that yields the authentic sandpaper grain of the AIP pictures, implying low budgets and quick takes. The vital difference is that Graffiti was photographed by Haskell Wexler, that most subtle and agile of cameramen. Most of the action takes place at night under harsh light and neon, a landscape that Wexler turns into extravagantly impressionistic honky-tonk images of glaring, insistent beauty...
...pinch on U.S. supplies of grain and beef is only part of a worldwide scarcity of raw materials. For almost every important commodity - meat, wheat, rice, soybeans, wool, cocoa, copper, lead, rubber- world production is falling behind ravenous demand, and hectic bidding for supplies is rocketing prices. A Reuters index of commodity prices leaped 91% in the twelve months ended July...
...admixture of Poles and Slavs and other groups. In many respects, the Scandinavians, long the largest single group in the state, have shaped Minnesota's character. They, together with its large Anglo-Saxon and German strain, account for a deep grain of sobriety and hard work, a near-worship for education and a high civic tradition in Minnesota life. Such qualities helped to produce the intelligent calm?and the stolidity?that characterize the efficient Minnesota atmosphere. It is telling that the University of Minnesota is probably the dominant and most prestigious institution in the state. Its president, Malcolm Moos, sees...
...deal is rich in lessons. One has already been applied: to prevent another unexpected foreign run on U.S. food supplies, the Commerce Department has set up a mandatory reporting system that requires grain exporters to file weekly reports of their sales...
...able to squeeze the last kopeck out of any transaction with capitalists. That kind of canny negotiating should give pause to the hundreds of U.S. executives who are rushing to do business with Moscow, especially those who want to exploit Siberian natural gas. In that deal, unlike the grain sales, the Soviets will be the sellers in a sellers' market...