Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts of Los Angeles will start getting converted sea water from a nuclear-powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...assemblage of Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter II), and the baroque gardens of Petrodvorets, the old Summer Palace, 40 minutes outside town on the Gulf of Finland. A delightful summertime consequence of Leningrad's northern location is the "white nights"-it stays light until around midnight and never gets totally dark. Another consequence: summer evenings as chill...
...which ordinarily gets two-thirds of its oil from Arab sources. The British have started printing gasoline-rationing coupons as "a precautionary measure," last week gave oil companies the go ahead to raise petroleum prices. Meanwhile, oil companies have been chartering every available tanker, lifting freight rates for Persian Gulf-to-Britain shipments to $19 a ton, a 350% increase in less than a month...
...what approach one brings to the work, there is a shift of tone between the first four acts and the fifth. The material for a black-comedy interpretation is undeniably present in the text; when it is tapped to the hilt, though, the ines-capable gap now becomes a gulf...
...Gulf or no gulf, I am grateful to Kahn for essaying this experiment. And I am particularly glad he did it with this play. For of all Shakespeare's works Merchant is the best known and, for some reason, the most popular. Everybody has read it in secondary school. It's a work everyone feels comfortable with (if not comfortable about); he knows its ups and downs, twists and turns, nooks and crannies. The play is like a well-worn glove. And now again we put it on confidently -- and the glove pinches; it's no longer what we thought...