Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most extravagant economic project is a $5 billion plan for quadrupling the capacity of the state-owned steel plant at Ciudad Guayana, thereby doubling employment from 8,000 to 15,000 over the next four years. As part of the project, Perez has announced that the iron-mining operations of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel will be nationalized by 1975 rather than in 2000 as originally agreed. It is presumed that the American companies will be fairly compensated with money from oil revenues. Oil leases and equipment held by foreign investors-principally Exxon, Shell and Gulf-will also be nationalized...
...toddler's leash had restrained her childhood exuberance, but Myrtle Anderson did not know how to stop Joan's postcurfew carousing or curb her iron spirit. Says Joni: "It was then and still is a constant war to liberate myself from values not applicable to the period in which I live." At 19, after a brief try at art school in Calgary, Joan decided to become a professional musician. Too poor to join the musicians' union, she floated around Toronto until one night she met Chuck Mitchell, a cabaret performer from Detroit who was appearing...
...horse stumbles that hath four legs. In the case of George "Dark Horse" Harrison, one might extend that proverb to include a certain two-legged species. From all that I've heard, there still seems to be a lot of wrinkles left to iron out in Harrison's present tour. Let's hope the horse regains his footing at least in time for the Boston date. George Harrison at the Garden on Tuesday...
...very heavy--just like Richardson." It should not be forbidding. Perhaps though, it should suggest a two-sided romanticism, an ambivalence best suggested by the main archway. The solid doors open easily-but is there a portcullis hidden within? I sometimes wonder. The arch is very deep: the iron points of the sinister descending gate might be met at any depth. But the arch is also an intimate whispering arch: a murmur spoken into any of the grooves may be clearly heard in the same groove at the opposite side of the doorway...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...