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...cutbacks to quadruple the price of crude in the past six months. That move alone will push up prices an average of 3% this year in consuming nations, which will have to pay at least $40 billion more than last year for their oil. But oil prices could well slip back down a bit now that the Arabs are again pumping out crude faster...
...suitor of one of the sisters, says "How well I understand this craving for work. I've never done a stroke of work in my life." In Olivier's production the line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...
...poet snores through the months of dormancy, then for a moment slips free of neurosis, professional chores, friends, money problems, sexual despair, family clatter and habits of sloth, and writes six lines. Four of these are bad, and as he sinks back into the murk at the bottom of his mind, he scratches them out. In a working lifetime he may only slip free for a very few days of these moments, and may accumulate enough good lines to fill at best a few hundred pages...
...know what was on that slip of paper burned by the Secretary of Hope in your Essay. "Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Strange Erasures" [Jan. 28]. I examined every line, parsed every sentence, even looked for clues by using the first letter in consecutive words...
...music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically to make the most of meager material. As a psychological Sesame Street, however, Knots has its moments. Marth...