Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gal. of crude oil. It is the worst oil spill in U.S. history...
Environmentalists call the Excursion a betrayal by a company that pledged to become cleaner and greener than its rivals. The Sierra Club is calling the Excursion "the Ford Valdez," after the infamous oil tanker. As Sierra president Dan Becker puts it, "People aren't marching in the streets demanding a vehicle that can carry a whole apartment in it." What's more, environmentalists argue, the Excursion will dump double the pollution of a small car, while at the same time raising the temperature of the earth's atmosphere. "It's nice that Ford is talking about the environment," says Becker...
...critic Robert Hughes praises Richard Serra's monumental "sculptures" that required "tanker technology" and steel-milled plates [ART, Oct. 19]. If Hughes wants to see large pieces of steel, put him on the subway to the outer reaches of New York harbor, where he can watch ships pass through the Verrazano Narrows. Modern art is the biggest practical joke in history, and Hughes has fallen for it. The true artists are the ironworkers and shipwrights who build today's floating monsters. GARRY JAFFE Chicago...
Making them required tanker technology. Each of the plates weighs between 15 and 20 tons, and few steel-mill machines existed that could bend them. Serra eventually found one in Maryland. All that tonnage (literally: the aggregate weight of the seven Torqued Ellipses comes to nearly 400 tons, giving this a claim to be the most ponderous one-man show in history) had to be shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek...
While watching Washington pundits perform on TV or reading the views of some think-tanker, the middle manager occasionally finds himself thinking that classic philistine thought: What do they know? They've never had to meet a payroll. And he even finds himself sympathizing a bit with those who find it strange that anyone should care about the views of people who produce nothing but opinions, with no practical consequence, about matters they have no responsibility...