Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that." So recalls Greg Gurbach, a field construction manager for Chevron, of the company's initial sortie into the mountainous jungle that surrounds Lake Kutubu, one of the most pristine spots in the South Pacific. The year was 1986; Chevron headed a consortium that had come to explore a reservoir 1.5 miles beneath the jungle floor that was thought to contain 225 million bbl. of high-quality...
...team's efforts brought it a seventh-place finish in the league, a finish slightly deceiving because of an unusually successful reservoir of talent in the league. Princeton, for example, the eventual NCAA champion, could only muster a second-place finish behind Brown...
...Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over. Now, pay attention...
...Toddy," as friends call her. He was also buoyed by the simple, touching love of his father, who knew more than a little about combat. Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller had won his general's stars leading his regiment to safety in the harrowing American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the first winter of the Korean...
...ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...