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Hunt praised the larger, lesser-known group of women who compromise the "other" portion of the roster for providing much of the enthusiasm and positive attitude that characterized this year's squad...
...refineries, which initially reduced production from 6 million bbl. per day to about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million a day in oil revenues, but also suddenly raised the specter of petroleum shortages in Japan, Israel, Western Europe and, to a much lesser degree, in the U.S.; all these countries depend in part on Iranian crude...
There were gifts aplenty last week at a birthday party for the world's newest nation, which happens to be a real banana republic. The tiny Commonwealth of Dominica (pop. 78,000), a 290-sq.-mi. speck in the Lesser Antilles, earns 70% of its $12 million export revenues from the serviceable fruit, and it has replaced Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a ceremonial President. Nonetheless, the Queen's younger sister, a newly thinned-down Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state...
...audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines her chest for the first time after surgery. A lesser actress would not have risked such a moment in closeup...
Lake's adaptation draws from a variety of Carroll's material, including Alice in Wonderland and his lesser known works and papers. But not all of it belongs in an adaptation of the light-hearted fantasy Through the Looking Glass. Doubtless Carroll's story was intended to do more than entertain little girls, and the elements of social satire and existential questioning which Lake points out in his program notes are certainly part of the depth and appeal of the book. However, Lake and to an even greater extent composer Michael Levine put so much emphasis on existential moralizing that...