Word: mobiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem posed by Vertov in new language, exploiting a melange of sophisticated techniques-surfaces of incredible richness and variety (shot by Ralph Thanhauser), lighting of immaculate control-in order to demystify their manipulations and to dramatize their limitations in creating recreating livable meaning. From the very first image-a Mobil Oil sign, the ultimate plastic and reified object-documentary "reality" overlaps with a manipulated fiction, and uncertainty governs our reaction to the determination of every fact: an ambiguous dialectic threatens the conception of our own credibility as a fixed value. The filmmaker explains that his original project was a Mobil...
...past four years, 22 large firms have moved their headquarters out of the city, and at least eleven more have made definite plans to depart (see box). Another two dozen are seriously considering whether or not to leave. Still other companies-including A.T. & T., Borden. Eastern Air Lines,Grolier, Mobil Oil and Uniroyal-have kept their home offices in Manhattan but have moved or soon will move a significant part of their staffs out of town. The figures, compiled by TIME with the aid of the Fantus Co., a leading adviser to companies considering relocation, show that the exodus from...
...decide what color to paint his house. He stood there stooped, red-faced and wrinkled from a not very eventful life: a poor, fatherless adolescence; ten restless years as a chiropractor, a calling that he gave up because the hours were too long; 27 years as a technician for Mobil Oil, interrupted by frequent golf and fishing trips; the death, on his retirement, of his wife; and then a six-month Grand Tour, followed by his return to Santa Barbara, where he slowly learned to cook his own meals and live alone...
...already put together an experimental 100-h.p. steam engine with support from Mobil Oil, which is interested in the lubricating problems of steamers. SES President Richard Morse headed a 1967 federal study group, which concluded that a return to the steam engine was indeed possible. Morse says that theoretically a steamer could use any kind of fuel, "even camel dung, if there were enough camels," but he prefers kerosene. The fuel is not exploded inside the cylinder as it is in the internal-combustion engine but is burned in an external combustion chamber at atmospheric pressure. As a result...
...revolutionary changes within this country should be obvious from the announcement that the Thien-Ky government is planning to award 17 off-shore drilling leases to international petroleum companies. Bidding was supposed to have taken place in Saigon in February. It was postponed 60 days because Gulf and Mobil ostensibly requested further clarification concerning the off shore leases...