Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerry Brown's wood chips, walnut shells and rice hulls ' might produce enough heat for the state capitol if they were baked until they emit organic gas, which is then collected and burned as fuel. But what are you going to use as fuel to bake them with, Jerry...
...Theatre were piddling sums). Olivier's past accomplishments in drama are legendary. Many people say his true greatness was in the theater, but Olivier has rendered many memorable film performances: Hamlet, Henry, Richard, Othello, Astrov, Strindberg's Captain, and to a lesser, though often equally delightful extent, Heathcliff, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Graham Weir in Term of Trial and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. Perhaps, many hope, he will return to the stage someday, if not to undertake a more mature Lear (he did it in '46 at the Old Vic), then perhaps to portray Prospero. There are those...
There is also a touristy foray to America, in which the windswept Bergen gets to ride a San Francisco cable car. The scene looks like a Rice-A-Roni com mercial. As Antonioni abundantly dem onstrated in Zabriskie Point, Italian di rectors should keep their distance from the U.S. The California air makes them go haywire...
...runs for the presidency in 1980, as many expect, California Governor Jerry Brown will be ready with his own energy program. Among other things, the $500 million Brown plan for California, unveiled after New Year's, proposes using windmills, wood chips, walnut shells, rice hulls, solar panels, coal gasification and hot water as alternatives to fossil fuels. Says Brown: "Americans seem to be getting less inventive. I'm going to try to stimulate things the best I can through energy innovation...
...create steam. Among Brown's more unusual ideas for spending the remaining $100 million: $4 million for the installation of a dozen giant windmills to generate electricity in windy mountain passes; up to $3 million for the use of agricultural wastes-wood chips, walnut shells and maybe rice hulls-to heat and cool the state capitol and other government buildings. The wastes are baked until they emit organic gas, which is then collected and burned as fuel...