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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESOURCES: The Alaskan Gas Rush | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Five Branded Women (1960), starring Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina in a World War II story of revenge in a small Yugoslavian town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 1, 1967 | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...matter "of fact, they cut the hair off four other girls (Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, Vera Miles, Carla Gravina) in the same town, because the sergeant evidently got around. And for the rest of this 100-minute movie, which was made in Italy and Austria by Director Martin (The Sound and the Fury) Ritt, the customers watch a quintet of crew-cut cuties who look about as exciting as a boy scout troop on an overnight hike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naval Person | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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