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...Administration has nonetheless had some success in trimming U.S. oil imports. In April they totaled 6.7 million bbl. per day, compared with 7.8 million bbl. per day for the same month in 1979. But energy independence is still fathomless barrels away. Last week Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s largest foreign energy supplier, hiked the price of oil 8%, to $28 per bbl., thus narrowing the gap with the OPEC nations that charge about $35 per bbl. Defending the tattered and admittedly rather feeble fee to a congressional subcommittee, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller warned: "Backing away from such...
...biologist's symbols, and just as unvoluptuous. Male phalluses are always limp, and female vaginas sharp-edged and abstract, even when surrounded by flaring flames. "The sex organ has a poetic power, like a comet," Miró says. Those figures - sometimes gay, sometimes grotesque - that posture against fathomless space are what Miró's latter-day disciples have most tried to imitate. But Miró could not care less. He still feels himself as an explorer. A series of canvases that he produced in 1961 are as empty as any minimalist could wish. In Blue II, a staccato...
Flannery O'Connor's characters are often poor whites in the postwar South she knew well. The stories tend to start with limited people whose superficial fretfulness shields fathomless self-satisfaction-women who are always "giving thanks" and telling their "niggers" to do likewise. By the end, their world has been shattered by some agent of evil greater than anything their cramped spirits could even recognize...
...smuggler, a member of a group of traveling tarts, and a lover of men who are unlovable to others. Somewhere along the line, like Greene, she has become a Catholic but, again like Greene, she has a weakness for touching the "untouchable." Her last untouchable is an Italian of fathomless duplicity named Visconti, who has bilked everyone from cardinals to oil sheiks. Now he is on the run, having been classified as a war criminal...
...appalled that their son Richy (Bobby Alto) is breaking up with his wife Joan (Candy Azzara) after only six years of marriage. The elders try to patch things up. But incompatibility and compatibility are equally obscure. Richy's and Joan's reasons for divorcing are as fathomless as Frank's and Bea's for staying married. It is all part of the mysterious human comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard Castellano's performance as Frank. Pouch-eyed and beer-bellied, he looks, talks and acts just like Paddy Chayevsky's Marty...