Word: spill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major calamity. In the past five years 94 tankers have foundered; two collisions occur every week. Then there is the rising risk of dangerous pollution from offshore oil wells. Last spring a presidential panel investigating the Santa Barbara Channel blowout concluded that the U.S. faces one major oil spill every year after...
...Santa Barbara oil spill...
NASA officials decided that Clifford Frondel, professor of Minerology, may have been exposed to what they called "a biological spill" after a researcher discovered a hole in one of the protective plastic gloves used to handle lunar material...
Downhill Racer, a sober and straight-forward story about an aggressive young skier on the international circuit, attempts to carom past the usual clichés by taking a fictionalized documentary approach. If on occasion it takes a spill or two, Downhill still comes through as a perceptive, unsentimental portrait of a young athlete on the make...
...least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest tilt of her head. Her Juliet is funny, touching and finally heartbreaking. Her Tatiana melds waif with woman so successfully that the pools of bathos beneath the surface of the Pushkin-cum-Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin never once spill over. Her Kate is a farouche wallflower on the surface, a child within. Kate's trustful obedience, when it is finally granted to Petruchio at the end of a rough-and-tumble parody in which Cragun and Haydée hilariously demolish the pas de deux, seems an emotional accolade...