Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read that right. For to shatter the mighty meteor, a hydrogen bomb must be sunk deep into its core. That means hiring a wild bunch of wildcat oil drillers, led by Bruce Willis, to do the deed. They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this...
...that don't comply, and the result is greater damage to the Russian economy than to the intended victims. A good example is the recent propaganda attack on Latvia and the accompanying boycott of Latvian goods. The real reason for the action was Russia's desire to control the oil pipeline passing through Latvia. ANDREJS BAIDINS Wilmington...
...piece, a desperate, eloquent defense of wild places, and it is not surprising to find that his first novel, Where the Sea Used to Be (Houghton Mifflin; 464 pages; $25), grows from the same earth. He used the identical title for a short story about a mystical oil geologist who, like the novel's hero, can see oil beneath mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus in his story The Myths of Bears. And the novel's wilderness...
...magic is only intermittent. There are wonderful imaginings: an epic, weeklong elk hunt in deep snow, a coffinmaker who carves his boxes in the shapes of totemic beasts. Bass's theme, however--humanity as a curse on nature--isn't quite realized in the unlikely person of a ruthless oil prospector called Old Dudley. And the author's habit of delivering long, italic nature lectures is windy self-indulgence. The dust jacket should bear a sign: EDITOR NEEDED, APPLY WITHIN...
...movie has enough plot (by Carter and Frank Spotnitz) to stock a half-season of shows. Let's see...a virus from aliens has been harvested and is about to be spread, by bees and corn oil, across the world--"a plague to end all plagues," whispers kook-savant Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who spends most of his time hiding in a fetid back alley hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency...