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...Nigerian and Algerian governments argue that the cuts are for purely technical reasons, to prevent the damage to their oilfields that would result if they continued indefinitely pumping out crude at recent rapid rates. Nigeria's claim may be partly justified, but Western oilmen charge that Algeria's alleged cutback is nothing more than a sleight of hand. Algeria is secretly selling the oil for top dollar to spot-market buyers. Reports a high oil company executive: "What appears to be a cutback is really just a diversion to the spot market. This is more than a suspicion...
...Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, the language of the venerable book remained remarkably close to that of the 16th century, even after its most recent revision in 1928. But Episcopalians now are on the verge of a substantial break with Cranmer. Next month, after three years of trial use, a modernized prayer book will come up for final approval at the church's General Convention...
...most memorable portrayals in recent films were of twelve-year-old prostitutes, and they were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
Truffaut may be underestimating the coolness of the newest wave of young actresses. Brooke Shields smiles sweetly when told of his theory. "I don't think I've ever gotten nervous, and I have done six films," says she. (Four have not yet been released; the most recent to appear is Just You and Me, Kid, with George Burns...
Everybody by now is aware that the cost of the American way is enormous, that air conditioning is an energy glutton. It uses some 9% of all electricity produced. Such an extravagance merely to provide comfort is peculiarly American and strikingly at odds with all the recent rhetoric about national sacrifice in a period of menacing energy shortages. Other modern industrial nations such as Japan, Germany and France have managed all along to thrive with mere fractions of the man-made coolness used in the U.S., and precious little of that in private dwellings. Here, so profligate...