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...moral issue than a political one. Critics of the Administration suggest that the Government's actions have undermined American claims of moral superiority, reducing the U.S. to the same level as the terrorists it condemns. If the Administration did intend to get Gaddafi, notes former Carter Legal Adviser Lloyd Cutler, it would be "the equivalent of a terrorist attack on a foreign leader...
Though there is more than enough oil available now, the leases under discussion would not come into production until the late 1990s. And while current bottom-of-the-barrel prices would make offshore recovery too expensive, oil companies must plan ahead for different market conditions. Says Lloyd Otteman, president of Shell California Production: "We're looking at eight to 15 years between lease sale and production. We can't find it and get it out any faster. The world picture has changed dramatically in the past ten years, and goodness knows what's ahead...
When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description and bears comparison to one of Lloyd's immortally orchestrated and madly logical disaster sequences...
...invented a new surname by appending Rohe, his mother's maiden name. (Less is more be damned: in German, mies means lousy, more or less.) Mies van der Rohe, invigorated by Weimar Berlin, spent most of the 1920s designing gorgeous industrial exhibits and handsome, blocky villas descended from Frank Lloyd Wright. Well into the decade, however, Mies the modernist was not scrupulously practicing what he preached: a neo-Georgian country house appeared as late...