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...remotely. To most people, it was just a downward-sloping diagram on the financial page, an abstract reminder of the mysterious world of desert oil wells, filthy-rich Arabs and the irritating antics of OPEC. But suddenly oil's new situation is hitting home with the wallop of a 42-gal. oil barrel dropped on the front porch. Last week consumers, businessmen and traders around the world watched in awe as the price of crude dipped below $10 per bbl. for the first time in almost a decade. Oil, which as recently as January was selling...
...buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full hour), and the grisly ending packed a wallop...
...mounted their takeover of American culture. By now, the revolution is complete. So the child of 1985 must teach his parents (the children of 1955) how to be cool, successful and loved. When they learn it -- when the Earth Angel meets Johnny Do-Gooder -- the picture packs a wonderful wallop...
...HUMAN COMEDY. William Saroyan's novel of homespun Americana packed little wallop as the book for this pop cantata, but the profligate melodiousness of Galt MacDermot's score and a dozen engaging actors just about sent audiences humming and floating out of the theater...
Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular and witty conservative, easily won election as majority whip. But two Northeastern moderates, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Pennsylvania's John Heinz, nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican Conference of the Senate and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which serve as the party caucus and fund-raising arm, respectively. Both men are notably less conservative than McClure and Lugar. whom they replace. "The White House is not going to like it." said one moderate Republican Senator...