Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this stag banquet, the pickings -- or leavings -- for women were slim. They got to play wives and invalids, to judge from this year's five Oscar nominees for Best Actress. Oh, yes, Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish, Susan Sarandon in Lorenzo's Oil, Emma Thompson in Howards End, Catherine Deneuve in Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous...
...away and will go to projects the Russians have urgently asked for. "We've done a lot of work with the Russians," says the White House official, "talked to them about what's most important." That could include money to build housing for former army officers, modernize Russia's oil industry, expand private efforts like the Salvation Army's Moscow soup kitchens and expedite the delivery of critical medical supplies. Administration aides know that even this size program will not be popular with American voters, but say the President will go to bat for it publicly and may even...
William McDonough, consulting architect for the Wal-Mart project and one of the most visionary of the green designers, thinks environmental consciousness is not merely a new constraint on his profession, but has the potential to create a new aesthetic. It was the unfortunate coincidence of cheap oil and the ability to fabricate large sheets of glass, he argues, that led to the "modern" office buildings pioneered by architects like Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s. Architectural movements since then -- notably postmodernism -- have been purely superficial, decorative responses to that style. "That's why this movement is so exciting...
...country is saddled with that substantial debt, and although at least one bank refused a request to finance the purchase, Turkmenistan still wound up buying a pricey Boeing 737-300 by tapping into a multimillion-dollar German bank account with its share of the former Soviet Union's oil and gas pipeline proceeds. The new plane's cost: $40 million...
...determined that Yeltsin not leave empty-handed when the two meet in Canada on April 3, assuming they still do. Much of what is being proposed is warmed-over Bush Administration stuff, including an innovative $2 billion fund the Export-Import Bank would target at Russia's sizable oil industry, a plan that acknowledges the money needed to remake the country is in the ground. But the benefits of aiding Russia's energy sector won't be realized overnight, and Senator Bill Bradley's estimable technical- assistance and exchange-program ideas will similarly require years to produce results...