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...question, now and in the future, is just what the Arabs are going to do with their new-found riches. A few still buy the traditional perks-air-conditioned Cadillacs, swimming pools and girls-but others have hired squads of advisers, ranging from ex-British civil servants to Palestinian refugees, to help them build roads, hospitals, housing projects, and to invest their money in Western enterprises for maximum profit. The Kuwaitis still seem to favor foreign real estate-from a new high-rise Holiday Inn in Beirut to a $27 million chunk of the Champs-Elysées, where...
...arguments are forceful enough, if a little familiar, but the young man never seriously wavers. "Those statements have all been made," he announces emphatically. "I'm tired of running, Deirdre. I want my life back." It is because Deirdre wants part of his life too that all her new-found political indignation becomes the prattling of a spoiled and slightly selfish young woman...
...favorite actresses, Patricia Neal, who plays the mother in this poignant WWII drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frank Gilroy. Jack Albertson won an Oscar for his supporting role as the father who welcomes his son home from the war, despite the mother's misgivings about the new-found independence of her son (Martin Sheen). Judy Collins sings "Albatross" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" for the sound track...
...connected by an underwater pipeline to shoreline facilities. Supertankers simply tie up to the buoy and pump oil into the pipeline while swinging with the tides and currents. Trouble is, oil is often spilled in the process and eventually washes ashore. For this reason the Japanese, with their new-found ecological fervor, are now shifting to an alternative: "sea islands...
...just a building that the women had taken over: Rather, they had seized a part of themselves that had previously existed only in fantasy or in the faces of "those other women." There was a sense of urgency among the women, channeled only by a new-found confidence in their ability to make something work. In the bathroom, a tall dark woman was struggling with some pipes. As she dried her hands, she looked up and shrugged, "If we can't fix the plumbing, we can't stay in here...