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...approach each other time and again in an elaborate effort to embrace, only to have a final miscalculation leaving them clutching at air. Vastly different in their approaches, both Balanchine and Graham were remarkably successful at illuminating Webern's sparse, mostly atonal scores-perhaps the world's unlikeliest music for dancing...
Blind Lead the Blind. Oil fever sent men searching in the unlikeliest places on the unlikeliest leads. A miner in California, Edward Doheny, sniffed oil when he spotted an ice wagon loaded with tar jolting along a Los Angeles street before the century's turn; he rustled up another prospecting pal, Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion...
Ever since the Suez crisis of 1956 threatened much of the free world's oil reserves, prospectors have been coming to Canada in droves and pushing out to the unlikeliest corners. Last week Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton told the House of Commons about the newest "hunting ground: Canada's forbidding Arctic. So far this year, no fewer than ten companies and individuals have applied for the right to explore 60 million acres of coastal waters and arctic island territory north of the Canadian mainland...
Greer Garson, Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
Virginia Woolf was the unlikeliest artist on earth to stoop to propaganda, or to any form of public ingratiation. She did not do so here. Yet England and its people, its present, past, innocence and disease, are here summarized, in much the way a nightwind can summarize a continent...