Word: oilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special drawing rights within the International Monetary Fund?"paper gold"?to ease perennial pressures on gold and on the two international reserve currencies, the dollar and the pound sterling. One current source of U.S. irritation is a proposed Common Market tax of $60 a ton on imported vegetable-oil products, from which the U.S. earns $450 million a year...
California's attorney general, meanwhile, was preparing two suits for over $100 million each against the Federal Government and Union Oil for damage to wildlife and the shore line. Private suits, such as the one filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court for over $1 billion, may well be joined with the state action...
More immediately troublesome to Union was the claim that it had seriously underreported the quantity spilled by the eleven-day gusher. Alan Allen, an engineer for General Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, meticulously plotted the spread and flow of the oil. Union had said that the crude escaped at the rate of 500 bbl. per day. By Allen's calculations, which he calls "ridiculously conservative," the ruptured well was spewing out at least...
...this more vividly seen than in his 1896 version of The Sick Child (see color pages), a marvelously sensitive evocation of his elder sister Sophie, who died of tuberculosis when Munch was 14. In fact, the lithograph of The Sick Child is essentially a detail from a larger oil that Munch had painted some ten years before. The painting showed the child upright against a pillow, with her aunt, head bowed, next to her, but the lithograph zeroes in on "the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes" that had inspired him in the first place...
Actors these days make reputations by playing junkies, warlocks, maniacs, hippies, fags and dictators. Somehow it is reassuring to know that there's still an actor left who will play a leathery oil-well firefighter with the unlikely name of Chance Buckman. That's John Wayne. The Duke may not be too good at rendering Brechtian anguish, but no one else can play a better John Wayne...