Word: gushers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mostly, Toomey observes from the side lines. He is supported by an endless gusher of royalties and protected by his international reputation. Sadly, ironically, he watches as Western civilization slides into barbarism and banality. He is in Germany during the '30s as the Nazis twist science into racist doctrine. In postwar Hollywood he endures producers who change his King Arthur script from a heroic Christian epic to a cheap romance. Toomey is a lonely paradox: lacking an abiding spiritual faith, he can enjoy but not fully possess the material world...
...gusher of an oil scandal...
That canny balancing act has made Hagman indispensable to the show. He knows it, of course, and, embittered by the fact that he does not get one penny from the Jeannie reruns, the star refused to return to work unless he got a larger share of the Dallas gusher. It was a tactic J.R. would appreciate, and, naturally, it worked: Hagman now makes an estimated $50,000 to $75,000 a show, or between $1.1 million and $1.65 million a year-not counting residuals yet to come from eventual syndication. "But you're already a rich...
...island sheikdom off the oil-rich coast of Saudi Arabia, is rapidly becoming an important financial center. Since the 1973 quadrupling of petroleum prices, 120 banks, including such international giants as Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Bank of Tokyo, have opened offices in Bahrain to handle the gusher of oil money flowing into the Arab world...
...U.S.S.R.: "To say that the Soviets have mismanaged their petroleum industry is the understatement of the year." Western oilmen say that the Soviets made their first serious mistake when they set drilling targets in terms of meters drilled, thus making a deep dry hole as good as a gusher in terms of fulfilling the plan...