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...shortage of natural gas that has closed factories and schools throughout the Northeast and Midwest is only the most visible and urgent symptom of the nation's energy crisis. Oil imports continue to hover at a record 44% of the nation's supply-a dangerous dependence on foreign producers that "has got to stop," as President Carter put it at his news conference last week. But domestic oil production is still declining; gasoline may run short during this summer's driving season because refineries will switch from making heating oil to gasoline much later than usual. Construction...
...FAMILY ARSENAL by Paul Theroux. Shades of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene hover about this tale of inept terrorists trying to play house in London...
...mood and states of being. The words are brilliantly deployed. The mood is autumnal. The states of being are growing old, needing companionship, the slithering instability of illusion and reality, the burden of the artist and the elusive tapes of memory. Yet Pinter's underlying concern seems to hover offstage, a case of the middle-age megrims which, at the age of 46, Pinter may well feel or have felt when he was writing No Man's Land. It is at that point that the first bayoneting intimations of mortality strike home. The middle-aged man also senses...
...problem restated by this book is more than a joke and less than a na tional crisis. To their credit, the authors usually hover somewhere between these extremes. They admit that social attitudes cannot be changed overnight simply by inventing words. But even such terms as "Ms" and "chairperson" they insist, really do help meet needs created by the growing independence and authority of women. Many people (not all of them men) would rather scrape their fingernails across a blackboard than hear such ugly and artificial neologisms especially when they are propounded on the unproved assumption that it will...
...airborne caravan headed up the Potomac Valley, Ford again asked for a change in plans, to hover over Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. His aide, Jack Marsh, a Virginian and amateur historian, urged the President to swoop across the river and study Fort Washington, a stone redoubt built between 1814 and 1824 to protect the capital. As the chopper went on, Ford viewed the steeple of Christ Church where Washington had worshiped, still tall and proud along the parkway. Nearing the White House, Ford turned to his companions. "Did you get the same feeling as I got this...