Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seaga inherited a country pragued by debt. unemployment and violence from his socialist predecessor Michael Manlcy and has set out to denationalize Jamaican industry in an attempt to spur the economy...
...love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg, an eye for women and a proverbial "heart of gold...
Kirk Douglas, as Spur, is appealingly folksy, despite a poor makeup job that leaves him with a Clouseau-like costume nose. He is equally convincing in his dual role as the rancher Harrison, capturing the character's stiff formality and paternal desire to raise his way-ward daughter as "a lady." Young Burlinson, with his impish smile and refreshing honesty, is certainly a find, and Jack Thompson, who will seem familiar for his role as the defense attorney in "Breaker Morant," plays a half-cowboy, "half-bloodhound" tracker with panache...
Mailer is a member of the postwar generation of writers who still believed in the possibility of the Great American Novel. This notion always flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness...
...OPEC crude and drawing down their inventories at a particularly rapid clip-some 4 million to 5 million bbl. per day-in anticipation of price cuts. At some point, the refiners will have to start rebuilding their stocks. In addition, the emerging economic recovery in the industrial nations could spur oil consumption and send prices back...