Word: richer
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Best known is the diluted variant called gasohol, the blend of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol that is sold in the U.S. at more than 1,000 service stations, and is widely available in Brazil in an even richer mixture of 20% ethanol and 80% gasoline. Now, however, a number of alky-boosters are touting the virtues of using the ethanol undiluted. Besides being out of OPEC's control, the fuel can be made in backyard stills that can cost as little as a few hundred dollars to build and almost nothing to operate...
...picture is not really a success. Especially in the first half, several scenes take too long to get to the point, which often turns out to be not very sharp. There are also gag sequences that could easily have been richer and more firmly developed. But Tom Berenger and William Katt are persuasive as the younger look-alikes of Newman and Redford (the latter's mannerisms are even gently parodied by Katt). When the pair finally get down to robbing banks and trains, their learner's clumsiness strikes an endearing note...
...motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry...
Klute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for this film She didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan...
...choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter's audience will include not just the American people but the OPEC cartel. Until he presents an energy plan that sharply and permanently reduces the nation's dependence on foreign oil, OPEC will just grow richer and richer...