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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...higher prices. In gasoline's case, demand has clearly been on the upswing. It used to be that Americans were happy with a full tank and an open road. Now they don't even need the road, given the growing passion for heavy sport-utility vehicles. "If there hadn't been this shift to larger vehicles," says John Lichtblau, chairman of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, "you would have seen a lower increase or perhaps a leveling off of demand...
...spirited mother Ruth. "Stubborn but never villainous" is her description of the result. Franklin began smoking as a child by picking up discarded butts, and it became a potent symbol of rebellion. Ruth at one point attempted aversion therapy by making him smoke a whole pack, but she hadn't reckoned on his strength of will: "By the time I finished all 20," he writes, "I must have vomited five or six times...but it gave me great satisfaction not to give in." On another occasion the mother, provoked beyond reason during a fast-food jaunt, locked...
...maintains that "alcohol can be good if it is used in moderation," an unusual stance in the strictly teetotal world of his father's generation of Evangelicals. And then there was that incident with the neighbor's tree, about which his only known explanation was that he hadn't realized it would require so many rounds. Martin describes the conflict as "the Rotarians dealing with the gunslinger...
...Rent look, at least as Bloomingdale's sees it, is shiny, colorful, abbreviated and frequently made of materials that hadn't been invented this time last year. Rent the musical is tough and loud, and it deals with AIDS and drugs. It is also a radical updating of Puccini's La Boheme, and the costumes, designed by Angela Wendt, take their cue partly from that. Roger (Rodolfo in the opera) wears plaid pants made from a material similar to a popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young...
...recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn't really liked life or the world very much. In fact, interviews with Travers suggest little more than that she couldn't abide journalists and had little patience with people who yearned to elicit trivial, simplistic or self-evident answers from her. In this, she resembled the unconventional governess she created...