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Palin's Big Oil infatuation
I was water-skiing with my children in a light drizzle off Hyannis, Mass., last month when a sudden, fierce storm plunged us into a melee of towering waves, raking rain, painful hail and midday darkness broken by blinding flashes of lightning. As I...Tags: Ecosystems, Petroleum Industry, Georgetown, Weather, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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'Blood' bond
![PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON is one of a handful of auteurs who is actively evolving the cinematic language. Known for his nerve-jangling urban stories (set usually in the San Fernando Valley), his new film, "There Will Be Blood," is inspired by "Oil!," an Upton Sinclair novel about the burgeoning petroleum industry in turn-of-the-century California. To star in his first period piece, a dark, propulsive character study, Anderson landed Daniel Day-Lewis.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-12/34310898-17091223.jpg "PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON is one of a handful of auteurs who is actively evolving the cinematic language. Known for his nerve-jangling urban stories (set usually in the San Fernando Valley), his new film, "There Will Be Blood,\" is inspired by \"Oil!,\" an Upton Sinclair novel about the burgeoning petroleum industry in turn-of-the-century California. To star in his first period piece, a dark, propulsive character study, Anderson landed Daniel Day-Lewis.")
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON is one of a handful of auteurs who is actively evolving the cinematic language. Known for his nerve-jangling urban stories (set usually in the San Fernando Valley), his new film, "There Will Be Blood," is inspired by "Oil!," an...Tags: Movies, New York, Petroleum Industry, San Fernando, Los Angeles
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The Great Gorino
Hello, this is Gore Vidal," the East Egg baritone announced. "Is Richard there?" I stammered a return greeting as the voice continued, "I read your story . . ." and then halted. On a Sunday in the spring of 1982, my article about Vidal's campaign for...Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Regional Authority, Government, Local Elections, Restaurants
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
![Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-07/40211098-18143052.gif "Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men\" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.")
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Daniel Defoe, Comedy (genre), Rex Stout, New York, Texas
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Using architecture as a stage-setter for what progress leaves behind
With the possible exception of certain underwater adventures and outer-space stories, pretty much every movie relies on architectural symbolism, finding in the house where the hero lives, the saloon he drinks in or the city streets he caroms through in...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Texas, Jennifer Garner, Manhattan (New York City), Michael Clayton (movie)
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Sister Carrie
Tribune staff reporterFrank Doubleday publishes Theodore Dreiser's novel that helps establish an enduring Chicago tradition: fiction in the raw, tawdry but compassionate. Published on this date, Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" was among the most auspicious debuts in...Tags: Indiana, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, Dining and Drinking
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Aging gracefully: Ken Kesey's "Cuckoo" and "Notion"
By Richard Rayner "He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a...Tags: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie), Ayn Rand, Health and Medical Professionals, Forests, Entertainment
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"Democracy's Prisoner," by Ernest Freeberg
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and a dubious law to restrict liberties at home. Add to that scenario vast inequalities in wealth, high Immigration rates, scant regard for...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Christianity, Crimes, Woodrow Wilson, Death
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Digging up dirt
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS: Los Angeles TimesTHE APPEAL By John Grisham Doubleday, 368 pages, $27.95 John Grisham sometimes seems less a literary personality than a force of nature -- his books a showy kind of regularly reoccurring natural phenomenon, a sort of Halley's comet between hard covers....Tags: Prosecution, Trials, Politics, New York, Mississippi
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It is rocket science
Times Staff Writer1800s -- 1841 William Wolfskill planted the first local commercial orange groves on 2 acres east of what is now Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles. 1881 On Dec. 4, the Los Angeles Times began publication as the Los Angeles Daily Times. The first...Tags: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Amelia Earhart, Bob Hope, Petroleum Industry
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'An Inconvenient Truth'
Times Staff WriterCritics have labeled Al Gore and his decades-long crusade to curb global warming as "alarmist." But if you've been warning people that the sky is falling for more than 20 years and it really is falling (or at least heating up), don't you have an...Tags: Plant Closings, Ecosystems, Petroleum Industry, Weather, Health and Safety at School
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![Critics have labeled Al Gore and his decades-long crusade to curb global warming as "alarmist." But if you've been warning people that the sky is falling for more than 20 years and it really <I>is </I>falling (or at least heating up), don't you have an obligation to sound an alarm?](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-05/23572754 "Critics have labeled Al Gore and his decades-long crusade to curb global warming as "alarmist.\" But if you've been warning people that the sky is falling for more than 20 years and it really <I>is </I>falling (or at least heating up), don't you have an obligation to sound an alarm?")
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