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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious twist of fate, which some might call poetic justice, Mexico finally has something that the United States desperately wants--huge reserves of oil and natural gas--and has no intention of obediently giving it away. Experts predict that by 1980 Mexico will be the world's fifth largest producer of oil, just behind Saudi Arabia...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: South of the Border | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

...necessity, every institution--a hospital, a school, a prison--has rules which facilitate its operation. The Harvard Corporation has its rules. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has its rules, and these are the rules which most affect and twist our lives here...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

Librarian, I am cold. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

Fine performances from Moriarty, Tuesday Weld as Moriarty's strung-out wife, and especially from Nick Nolte as Ray Hicks, the martial arts enthusiast with a Nietzschean twist. A wonderful reading period film--"All my life I've taken shit from morons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '50s Nostalgia and '70s Paranoia | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

REMEMBER THOSE fabulous '50s?" Chubby Checkers keeps asking on late night T.V. "Remember the music? The drive-ins? Your first prom?" The King of the Twist takes a long look around the mocked-up malt shop and gives a wistful smile, "Well, now you can relive those fabulous...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: Distorted Hindsight | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

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