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...fundamental problem the need to protect the vast oil reserves in the Persian Gulf. Our country imports a relatively small percentage of its oil from Iraq and Kuwait, and from the whole Persian Gulf for that matter. Should Saddam cut off access to Gulf oil, it would certainly spell trouble for our economy in the short term, but we could use the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources, a project long overdue...
Last year I worked for a spell at the Economist in London. The attitude there was a revelation. They take pride in their work, and can be as self- important about it as any group of American journalists. But they also take five weeks of vacation every year, plus nearly a week at Easter and nearly two weeks at Christmas when the office is shut, plus the usual holidays. And it would take more than a mere war somewhere to get an Economist editor to cancel his or her summer...
...attempt in a quarter-century to set him before an American public. "Nicolas de Stael in America" holds, along with a few routine pictures, some marvelous moments. There are paintings whose intelligence and sensuous pressure stop you in your tracks, images that seem all the fresher for their long spell in limbo. And the Phillips Collection is the right place for them. Its founder, Duncan Phillips, was the first American to buy De Stael in depth, and one has only to move to the other floors of this beloved institution to see the context from which De Stael sprang...
...better than Batman. Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...
...green lawn turn brown and scraggly. All across the increasingly arid U.S. Sunbelt, homeowners are facing that disheartening prospect. Because of persistent droughts and rapid population growth, there is not nearly enough water to keep every plot of grass green. Los Angeles, in the fourth year of a dry spell, recently imposed water rationing, and South Florida, which absorbs as many as 1,000 newcomers a day, has been needing more rain for two years...