Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its success in the Midwest and the Southwestern Oil Patch, Chiles' message does not seem to travel well. During a test of the radio spots in Manchester, N.H., residents said they were "irritated" by his Texas accent. Nonetheless, the tough, salty entrepreneur is preparing to expand his broadcast broadsides. On the horizon: a TV campaign now being tried out in Tucson, Oklahoma City and Florence, S.C. Chiles has toned down his language a bit for the medium, but there is no mistaking the wail of Mad Eddie...
...Schlondorff must be conceded his nice touches. The film begins and ends with Oskar's grandmother in her Kashubian potato field, a Brechtian Mother Courage moving with time and walking in place, Mother Earth herself, born of the land and too old to travel far from her potato patch. She is an ugly, dirty (dirty-y) little woman who, quite by coincidence, spawns Oskar's mother, who in turn delivers Oskar...
...first glance, it looks like any other oilfield, with acre upon acre of pumps rhythmically nodding up and down as they suck up the crude oil trapped in rock below the surface. But the Guadalupe, Calif., oil patch 50 miles northwest of Santa Barbara is no ordinary oilfield. Like a growing number of production sites in California and Texas, Guadalupe is producing a gloppy goo that looks more like asphalt than normal petroleum. This is so-called heavy oil, a once rejected energy source that oilmen now believe may help diminish the nation's dependence on imported petroleum...
Albert G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday the satellite was found "as a faint patch of light on a photograph of Pluto...
...decades, but Edwards invests it with a rough, sinewy power, and his larger piece in the show, Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas, 1978, has an almost majestic aura of open declamation. More delicate and complex in feeling is Howardena Pindell's large, irregular patch of canvas, covered with a silvery-pink crust of paint, sequins, confetti and dye, in whose nacreous surface also appears a slow twinkling of glitter. Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanjá, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send...