Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broods Houston's larger protagonist: nature in the Arctic, the violent rhythm of storms and seasons. There is an almost Homeric hunt for walrus, and a winter dance of exquisite magic and sexuality. Eventually a moment comes in the long winter when the whalers, ugly but not serious, threaten an Eskimo with knives. In his code, it is a disastrous challenge: he must either kill the kalunait or exile himself. "But killing men was not our custom," says Avinga, "and it had not been done in living memory." With no reasonable solution possible, the Eskimo simply withdraws...
...Movie bombs and kills him for Hollywood. "That wouldn't bother me . . . then I'd be just like Orson Welles." Hopper seems a victim of his own method of production: a man whose love for the camera allows him to project personal fantasy-but whose camera vision and obsessions threaten to cut him off entirely from reality...
...client Pepsi-Cola, put down some perceptive thoughts in Foreign Affairs that he was later to elaborate in the 1968 campaign. "Taking the long view." declared Nixon, "we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, and threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation...
...wondering where the next stop would be, while those in charge tried to figure out which way the slow rolling wheels of justice were to turn. If the confusion had not been so utterly pervasive I would have believed it was all an incredibly sophisticated plot designed to threaten the sanity of any person whose misfortune it is to be arrested. (As it was, I think that it was chaos and confusion completely out of control-though this made the situation no less tempting to madness...
...should open its markets to much more oil from Canada, its closest and most reliable ally. Washington has long infuriated Canadians by treating their country as a "surge tank": drawing on it for supplies when shortages threaten, cutting back again when the pinch eases. That policy is economically as well as politically shortsighted. Canada could offer much fuel at prices below U.S. quotes; Canadian crude now sells for $2.75 a bbl. In return the U.S. could offer Canada sales outlets for oil reserves, which Canadians at present have neither the capital nor the domestic markets to develop. Oil wells...