Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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The policy advisers around Reagan are very different from those who surrounded Carter. Environmentalists and consumer advocates have been replaced by oil company executives and geologists. Reagan's main cicerone through the tangled thicket of energy policy is Michel Halbouty, 71, an unpolished and sometimes profane wildcatter who looks...
The U.S. has also stepped up its use of alcohol as motor fuel. Gasohol is currently being marketed through some 10,000 service stations owned or supplied by Texaco, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips and a few smaller independent petroleum companies. It is unlikely, however, that Americans will turn to pure alcohol...
One emerges from his endless version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles with a sense that one could have read the book in a shorter span and had more fun too. There is no question that Polanski's images-with Brittany doubling for "Wessex...
7 a.m. The metronomic beat begins. The alarm clocks-one square, one frilly, one sensibly round-start ringing. Kiss the kids goodbye. Stop for a red light. 7:55. A city full of female legs: walking, running, bicycling, escalatoring. Hands hail a cab, finger a watch, exchange coins for coffee...
And so it careers from cutesie-poo dream sequences to bondage-and-discipline revenge, from a giggly hen party to an answer to the working woman's prayer: a "liberated" work space, complete with racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair...