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...Exporting Countries has become the toughest and most powerful cartel in history. OPEC has grown to 13 members,* and its ukase sets the export price for oil, thus exercising an unprecedented influence on the economies of almost all countries. Its recent success has inspired the countries that produce copper, tin and other basic materials to talk about forming their own price-pushing cartels...
...TIN ROOF...
Among living playwrights, none has created more such characters than Tennessee Williams. Actors and actresses rise to these roles with peak efforts, sometimes giving the most memorable performances of their careers. The present revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is just that sort of triumph...
...Griffith finds that the trademark Brooklyn diphthong oi also appears in many Gaelic words; taoiseach (leader) and barbaroi (barbarians), for example. He also points out that the th sound is absent in both Gaelic and Brooklynese, in which it becomes a hard / or d (as in da dame wid tin legs). Some classic Brooklyn expressions, he adds, come directly from the Gaelic: whudda card (joker) is a corruption of caird (an itinerant tramp); put da kibosh on it (put an end to it) comes from caip baish, or cap of death, a facecloth that inhabitants of southwest Ireland placed over...
Romantic appeal aside, the big reason for the sudden chic of sea burial is economics. Says Charles Denning, founder of the Neptune Society: "For the past hundred years undertakers have made a rich living by selling tin boxes that rust in the ground, pink gowns and booties, and scenic plots overlooking freeways." These standard "hole-in-the-ground" funerals, he notes, cost $1,200 to $1,900. Burial at sea runs a mere $250 a throw...