Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After decades of relative stability, world prices of these materials are taking off on what could be a long climb. Between 1968 and 1973, the average U.S. price of nickel went from 940 per Ib. to $1.53, tin from $1.48 to $2.20 and copper from 420 to 590. In addition, the U.S., in part because of its wealth and power, is unpopular in some Third World nations. With demand for minerals strong, several countries conceivably could reduce exports to the U.S. and find eager buyers to take its place...
...situation: the dragon's nose had been cut off by a bulldozer; in revenge, the dragon had put a curse on the whole Man clan, which since the 1200s has made up all of the 3,700 population of Lok Ma Chau and the neighboring village of San Tin. To avert catastrophe, the expert declared, construction of the parking lot must cease immediately...
Woody Allen has seen the future -and it doesn't work any better than the present. In Sleeper, having undergone an unsuccessful operation for a peptic ulcer, he is wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current...
There might as well be a magazine called Playgun to offer forthright celebration of America's steamy relationship with firearms. Such a publication might eliminate the need to justify all that noisy discharge of lead at tin cans, clay pigeons and passing cars that is so dyed-ih-the-Dacron American. There might even be a centerfold featuring the latest model that has come to the big city for the exciting night life-but ultimately, of course, would like to settle down as a policeman's side...
Consider a brief and highly incomplete roster of Western drama in which this struggle, or some variation of it, is powerfully present: Medea, Hedda Gabler, Dance of Death, The Father, Strange Interlude, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Walts of the Toreadors, The Homecoming, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...