Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More interesting is Western Avenue, which runs from Central Square straight to the Charles. The neighborhood it bisects is Riverside, one of Cambridge's heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that...
America's oil shale, which is estimated to contain about 75 billion bbl. of recoverable crude, is also concentrated in the region. Elaborate pilot projects to get the oil are planned by Occidental Petroleum in western Colorado and Union Oil in southeastern Wyoming. The investment would be hefty-$120 million for Union's 20,000-acre test site designed to produce 9,000 bbl. daily-but there is a strong chance that Congress will approve a $3 tax credit for each barrel produced...
...Nigerian and Algerian governments argue that the cuts are for purely technical reasons, to prevent the damage to their oilfields that would result if they continued indefinitely pumping out crude at recent rapid rates. Nigeria's claim may be partly justified, but Western oilmen charge that Algeria's alleged cutback is nothing more than a sleight of hand. Algeria is secretly selling the oil for top dollar to spot-market buyers. Reports a high oil company executive: "What appears to be a cutback is really just a diversion to the spot market. This is more than a suspicion...
...Movie children were not always like real children," says Lament Johnson, who directed Mariel Hemingway in Lipstick and Diane Lane in Cattle Annie and Little Britches, a western film scheduled for release next spring. "Until about a decade ago, girls were dainty untouchables, unless they were little mutts. Hollywood had a Latin view of them, the whore or the madonna." If a script called for a very young girl to play a suggestive role, directors looked around for slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that...
...many Americans taking the waters? For a generation of joggers and beansprouters, mineral water is the ultimate health drink: no calories, artificial flavorings, sweeteners or preservatives. "The primary reason for the Perrier craze," believes Charles Welsh, the company's Western U.S. sales director, "is that the American life-style is heading toward natural food and drink." For many people who have grown wary of pollution in their tap water, a bottle of Saratoga or Evian is, pure and simple, just safer than the kitchen faucet...