Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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World supplies are short enough that Iran expects no trouble finding buyers, particularly from countries that have little if any oil of their own and seem willing to pay any price for supplies. As Nazih was speaking, a tanker was reportedly loading 300,000 tons of crude at Iran's Kharg Island for Japan at the new, extortionate price. The easy sale could well tempt other producing nations to post similar price increases in the days ahead...
Atonishingly, the Carter Administration could not even seem to agree on whether the week's worries added up to anything worth fretting about at all. In an unseemly intramural squabble, Department of Energy officials kept pressing the White House to make a strong statement on the need to conserve oil supplies, while Treasury aides urged that the President say nothing for fear of spooking currency dealers abroad into dumping dollars. Yet it seemed more likely that a determined U.S. policy to conserve would strengthen the dollar by showing the world that the nation was taking steps to correct...
...scene. It is the same with other sequences: company goons on the attack, the death of Norma Rae's father from overwork. There is an awful familiarity here and in Martin Ritt's conventional staging. The angles and editing are those of 30 years ago, and they seem less a reversion to classicism than a confession of creative failure...
Frances Sternhagen's Ethel is more than a comforter. She is a diminutive fortress of a woman. Brave, resilient, compassionate, she has spent a lifetime taming and pampering her paper lion. But with all that, she cannot seem to restore Norman's faltering appetite for living. In his first Broadway play, Ernest Thomp son, 29, soundly realizes that it takes young blood to send old blood coursing...
...luminous performances of Aldredge and Sternhagen make the price of a theater ticket seem paltry. This is the kind of acting that goes into the memory bank of treasured theatrical experiences. Director Craig Anderson never inflates the modest human scale and substance of the work. On Golden Pond makes hearts float and leaves playgoers, in the words of one of Marianne Moore's poems, "strengthened to live...