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Federal energy officials late last week announced that 240 million gallons of gasoline will be taken out of refiners' inventories and sent to stations in 25 states. But, says Jerry Cohen, a lawyer for the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers: "The only thing this government seems to react to is pressure." Some station owners have begun to talk about emulating the independent truckers, whose fuel-related strike last month ended with the granting of almost all their demands...
Even the most gifted actor would have trouble making Bitto's lines sound natural, and most of the members of the cast compound the problem with stilted delivery and mechanical facial expression. The characters often react to each other too soon--or worse, don't react...
...over age-browned eyes. "Orange soda?" he says as he hands up the bottles from the panting cooler, and if you encourage him he begins telling stories from the Bible, and talking in general about the state of the world. He believes that TV faked the moon landings. We react like Zarathustra, thinking to himself, could it be that this hermit, here in his woods, has not yet heard that God is dead? He paces and leans behind the counter: Ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones, you've red it, I know you have, how the Lord told...
...news that's fit to print" can become just as dogmatic as the dogma of papal infallibility in Roman Catholicism, or finding the "correct" party line in Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Freud have virtually destroyed the doctrine of detached objectivity and have instead shown how people think or react according to their social class or emotional needs...
Curran has been reacting to criticism defensively rather than constructively. He has not released another statement to prevent people from reading the summary as a recommendation, nor has he made any attempts to forestall the repressive prison which could result from the study. Curran has rather been trying to protect his image. If Curran's intentions were as humane as he claims, would he react only with a personal defense...