Word: standards
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Syrian Forebears. Aramco, a consortium composed of the Saudi Arabians, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California, gives about $200,000 a year to support groups in the Arab lobby. In the past twelve years, Mobil has donated $170,000. Exxon, excluding its gifts for Arab studies at various U.S. schools, contributes about $150,000 a year. Most oil companies are reluctant to discuss such gifts, but despite the oil companies' obvious self-interest, Aramco Senior Vice President Joseph J. Johnston insists that the donations could play a crucial educational role. "It would be useful," he says...
...into little. They could almost be called transistorized sonatas. Op. 126 especially finds the composer speaking with harrowing intensity and sharp intent. Gould, technically brilliant as ever, not only gets the point but conveys the intensity. The most eloquent disc performances of these works since Artur Schnabel set the standard in the 1930s...
...their possible united strength and their peculiarly American advantages. The War of 1812 confirmed independence from Britain. The Civil War made a national government and helped build a national economy. To supply a large and wide-ranging army, the North speeded the unifying of the railroad systems with a standard gauge, and found itself compelled to produce clothing and all sorts of other items in unprecedented quantities and in nationally standardized sizes. The victory of the North established the fact that no state could divorce itself from the Union, that the Union was an indissoluble nation...
...used to be that every few years yielded a different image. In 1960 it was Jackie Kennedy's finishing-school polish, later Twiggy's innocent charm and the tomboyish Ali MacGraw. But increasingly women refuse to accept anyone else's beauty package. Today the one standard left is the camera's unblinking eye. Margaux is a photographer's ideal, and despite the trend to diversity, hers is the face of a generation, as recognizable and memorable as Lisa Fonssagrives and Jean Shrimpton. When Margaux has her hair wet and slicked back, Photographer Francesco Scavullo thinks...
...bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend. The literal-minded," warns the author, "will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind. Benchley, with his arch collage of pictures and incidents...