Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, most major cultural achievements cannot be singled out from the long careers of their makers. News stories proclaim the dramatic, the striking, the unprecedented. Creative acts usually build subtly on what has gone before toward something perhaps yet to be imagined. They trace a curve of achievement, not a jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof...
...that had Government-controlled prices as low as $5 per bbl. Rich then supplied the oil to the Texas firms at the legal price. The Texas companies, according to federal officials, laundered the crude through a series of purchases so that it was difficult for Government regulators to trace the oil's origin. Then the Texans sold it back to Marc Rich's New York subsidiary at a profit as high as $20 per bbl. Marc Rich then sold the laundered crude to American oil companies at the higher price. Finally, according to the indictment, a secret arrangement...
ANDERSON'S CANDIDACY is now little more than a foot-note to the 1980 election, a reminder that he might have won out over Reagan. His dark-horse campaign probably only has significance for those who trace the history of presidential campaigns closely...
CARROLL O'CONNOR, best known for his 13-year stint as Archie Bunker on All in the Family, displays remarkable control. Despite the striking similarity of his theatrical and television roles both blue collar, conservative and ideologically limited--no trace of Archie Bunker seeps through. O'Connor's only impediment is a simulated Irish brogue which, while credible, frequently muffles his speeches...
...producers gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a clear role, but it was always intended as just a foot in the door." Now that the door is open the show must trace a clear path...