But there's always a peril of slipping into a sort of historical solipsism - one of the things I find impressive about Dancer is that you extract someone else's life history from the history of crude facts.
The rhetoric that surrounds property letting – both commercial and residential – in contemporary London is full of buzzwords such as "experience", "excitement" and "cosmopolitan" that mask the crude facts: you're buying a little box of ticky-tacky for millions simply because of its location within a rapidly expanding property price bubble.
The humor is typically crude – in fact cruder than the films – and the plot have been fairly predictable, with far too much redundancy.
In addition, since more heavy oil is being pumped rather than lighter crude, the fact that heavier crude flows more slowly though pipelines reduces the volume being transported, making it more expensive to transport.
(The prototype was so crude, in fact that my friend commented to me that night, "That'll never work!" Famous last words).
These crude, pathetic facts about the lives of these artists trickle into a bedrock of embarrassment that today undermines both our ability and our willingness to respond to the style of art we call expressionism.
In "Letters on the Study and Use of History" (1752), Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke condemned those who "store their minds with crude unruminated facts and sentences; and hope to supply, by bare memory, the want of imagination and judgment".
In fact, crude oil futures have soared more than 46% to more than $68 per barrel since hitting a low of $46.72 per barrel on April 21.
You would be wrong.In fact, crude is plentiful.
