Word: gravina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paso proposal, an all-American project, calls for piping gas on a route parallel to the oil pipeline, from Prudhoe Bay almost due south across Alaska to Gravina Point. There it would be liquefied, loaded on tankers, shipped to California, deliquefied and pumped into existing pipelines. Alaska state officials vigorously support the El Paso system, which would bring jobs and investment for liquefaction plants to the area. One key drawback to the plan is that the West Coast already has an ample supply of gas. Another is the possibility of tanker mishaps. The Alcan application, which proposes laying a pipeline...
...specialty acts at small clubs. It is a hard scuffle, but Nicholas dotes on the comfortable insecurity of the life. At least it offers a neat opportunity to fend off deeper involvement with his mistress Peggy (Françoise Fabian) and keeps an eventual reconciliation with his wife (Carla Gravina) at a safe distance. Nicholas' only deep commitment is to the dubious luxury of noninvolvement...
...southern terminus at Gravina Point, the gas would be liquefied by lowering its temperature to -260° F. and shipped in special tankers to Point Conception, Calif., near Santa Barbara. There the fuel would be heated back to a gas, then pumped into existing pipelines for distribution throughout the Southwest. This arrangement would reduce the Southwest's dependence on natural gas from Texas, which could then flow in greater quantities to gas-pinched homes and factories in the Midwest and the East...
...table, where she delights in sucking fish heads, and in bed, where she screams like an air-raid siren during orgasm. Months of this kind of married life, plus a hysterical pregnancy and intrusive in-laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman's life thus becomes a long, wearing series of legal combats with his estranged wife, who hauls him before the bar on a variety of charges, most of them torturous in their surreal logic...