Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly balances herself on the woman's knee and seems about to bite her lip as she watches the woman gently washing her foot. This oil painting, like Cassatt's prints, shows evidence of the Japanese influence; the lines are simple and the layout of the picture is flattened, with the floor behind the woman and child pushed up so that the room becomes depth-less, forcing the woman and child forward, while at the same...
...image of environmentalists as radicals has craftily been painted by powerful special-interest groups, usually large oil and mining companies, members of which manipulate our political system to influence Congress and perpetuate the myth that they are doing good for America. Large companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Shell pour money into think tanks with positive sounding names such as Partners for Affordable Energy so that their stealth attack on Mother Nature can continue...
...sense if after you've gotten there you get squeezed and discover you have no rights." Moscow is finally pushing an agreement to share energy revenues with foreign companies that are desperately needed to develop this sector, but that still won't undo the baleful effect of low world oil prices. "Sixty percent of Russia's export earnings come from oil and gas," says Goldman. "As long as world commodity prices stay low, there's no way they're going to get themselves out of this hole...
Spectacular flames rose from the freighter New Carissa after the U.S. Navy detonated explosives and napalm-spiked gasoline in its hull. The ship had run aground off the Oregon coast and storm-whipped waves had torn into it, threatening an environmental disaster if all 400,000 gallons of oil within leaked. The daring "controlled burn" was intended to consume 90% of the fuel in 24 hours. The maneuver seemed to work: the burning boat broke in two the next day, but only a fraction of the oil contaminated the beaches...
...founded the American Tobacco Company. But the richest girl in the world found only domestic rancor: a hateful mother, scheming lovers and, finally, a butler (Richard Chamberlain, all oil and vitriol--a nicely creepy job) who hastened her death and gained her fortune. This mini-series, directed by John Erman, has the impulse for high trash but not the racing pulse, the quick, bold strokes; its view of the rich getting skewered by the would-be rich is curiously sedate. The reason to watch is Lauren Bacall; she has the glamour, gravity and great bones to give the elder Doris...