Sentences with phrase «of oilman»

It is rather a novelization of a true - life incident, the kidnapping of oilman Charles Urschel by infamous (hence the title) desperado George «Machine Gun» Kelly.

«On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary and Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets» former stomping grounds.»

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets» former stomping grounds.

«There Will be Blood,» Paul Thomas Anderson's story of a oilman's rise — based very loosely on a novel by Upton Sinclair — has a beginning but no real end, and a chronologically scattered middle.

When Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater, they help Kermit reunite the Muppets to stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $ 10 million needed to save the theater.

The churchgoing family man could booze with the hardiest of his oilman benefactors.

Not exact matches

If people saw enough movies and slide films and paintings and photographs of oil and oilmen perhaps they would begin to understand (and like) the industry.

Oilmen of a certain vintage might wonder exactly what's going on in Calgary these days.

An exchange - traded fund that reflects the investment philosophy of legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens launched on Wednesday.

Thus, I turned to Ladbrokes, Britain's finest gambling establishment, to calculate the outcome of a donnybrook between Pickens, the 84 - year - old Texas oilman, and Buffett, the 82 - year - old Nebraskan investor.

I've long thought that an administration chock - full of billionaires, active and retired military officers, and a former oilman would be itching for a war somewhere, and with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump associates getting hotter by the day, the president may well be tempted to wag the dog.

Jeffery Immelt, the CEO of GE, was a Phi Delt, as were a number of other prominent trustees, among them Morgan Stanley senior adviser R. Bradford Evans, billionaire oilman Trevor Rees - Jones and venture capitalist William W. Helman IV.

Texas oilman George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing, but, through much trial and error in the»80s and»90s, he demonstrated the technique was a commercially viable way of squeezing oil from otherwise impermeable rock.

The oilman turned corporate raider was one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout craze of the 1980s, producing huge gains for his investors while becoming one of the richest people in America with a net worth of $ 1.4 billion.

Ernest Bothi, creator of the sign and the organizer of the Big Country Oilmen's Association golf tournament, initially told reporters he had nothing to be sorry about.

The number of rinks participating in the annual Sundre Oilmen's bonspiel was down slightly this...

The men with whom he is dealing on this project are used to figuring on the scale of Texas oilmen.

Of course, the 37 - year - old New Orleans oilman does not play in all the tournaments.

Robertson is a grandson of the late Hugh Roy Cullen, the famed Houston oilman, and grandsons of Cullen usually inherit a little something when they turn 21.

A year ago, Roger Wheeler, a Tulsa oilman and chairman of the Telex Corporation, who has a reputation for honesty, bought World Jai - Alai.

Texas oilman and entrepreneur CLINT MURCHISON JR., 63, who founded the Dallas Cowboys in 1960 and owned the team until 1984; of complications caused by pneumonia; in Dallas.

The deep pockets of filthy - rich oilmen, rules be damned, financed it.

Istook, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, took 55 percent of the vote to 31 percent for oilman Bob Sullivan, who spent liberally from his own pocket on this his first political race.

The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University has a new exhibit that tells the story of offshore drilling and the 41st President's previous life as an oilman.

Fossil hunter, philanderer, oilman, spy: Barnum Brown dabbled in a few dubious shenanigans while amassing the world's greatest cache of ancient bones.

The plot begins in the late 1980s, when the original owner, Texas oilman Ed Bass, spent $ 150 million to create a model of the first biosphere (Earth) near Tucson, Arizona.

On fourteen dry, flat square miles of California's Central Valley, more than 8,000 horsehead pumps — as old - fashioned oilmen call them — slowly rise and fall as they suck oil from underground.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

Depicts the experiences of a down - and - out wildcat oilman who believes in hitching his wagon to a star.

The greatest of the bunch is Daniel Plainview, the manically driven oilman of There Will Be Blood.

While Redemption did borrow that name — Plainview — from There Will Be Blood «s oilman antihero, this scene certainly looks more in line with the tone of Coen brothers film.

All of that and more is being done to save the world renowned Muppet Theater from the hands oilman Tex Richman, who wishes to level it to gain access to the vast oil reserves below.

Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.

In Ridley Scott's fact - based «All the Money in the World,» criminals kidnap a grandson of billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, played by Christopher Plummer.

Woodcock's demeanor, if not his nature, lies in stark contrast with that of Day - Lewis» last Anderson character: Daniel Plainview, the ruthless oilman of

Woodcock's demeanor, if not his nature, lies in stark contrast with that of Day - Lewis» last Anderson character: Daniel Plainview, the ruthless oilman of There Will Be Blood.

False gods strut through the movies of Paul Thomas Anderson: rapacious oilmen, well - endowed porn stars, inventors of new religions and spinners of old lies.

Along with the cursory inclusions of the movie's teaser and theatrical trailer, there are two unprocessed deleted scenes and a dailies reel, the latter featuring an alternate take of the explosive restaurant scene between Plainview and other oilmen.

Meanwhile, a Texas oilman's son (Haley Joel Osment) wants the movie shut down, E's (Kevin Connolly) sex life is spiraling out of control, newly rich and thin Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) has a crush on Ronda Rousey, Vince's movie might suck, and Drama (Kevin Dillon) may become Hollywood's biggest joke.

It finds all of the players in the oil game corrupt and compromised, and even provides a brilliant speech in defense of corruption, by a Texas oilman (Tim Blake Nelson).

Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood classic is remembered for its famous diner scene, but there's much more to cherish about this character study, which explores the surprising roots of Jack Nicholson's blue - collar oilman.

Neale's first real piece of automotive art was a painting of a Cadillac Allard, a commission that was arranged by a Kilgore oilman in 1952.

[26] That same year oilman Edward L. Doheny finished construction of Greystone Mansion, a 55 - room mansion meant as a wedding present for his son Edward L. Doheny, Jr..

Next up was Tate chairman Lord Browne, a self - described «oilman,» who trumpeted the fact that the Tanks are just the first phase of an addition that will increase Tate Modern's size by 60 percent.

Established in 1965 by oilman Algur H. Meadows, the Meadows Museum is located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in central Dallas.

Still, Naomi Potter, the gallery's curator and director, says founder Jim Hill, a Calgary oilman, acknowledged the role of art in opening conversations when she first mentioned Feuer.

Since this is something former VP Al Gore, the environmentalist and T. Boone Pickens, the oilman can agree on, the rest of us should be able to also.

Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Southern California Edison, argues that plug - ins represent a natural evolution of hybrid technology, which today essentially burns gas to generate electricity... George W. Bush, the former Texan oilman, has begun talking up corn ethanol and clean diesel and has endorsed a $ 4,000 tax credit for purchases of hybrid cars.

With oilmen like Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources, and Forrest Lucas, the founder of Lucas Oil, named as potential candidates to lead the departments of energy and the interior, respectively, in a Trump administration, the mostly likely historical analog for the next few years could be the start of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when he appointed senior officials who were often hostile to the policies of their own agencies.

William Happer is first up, the former professor of physics at Princeton, now more well known as a guy who was willing to take money from unknown Middle Eastern oilmen, funnel it through the CO2 Coalition, and produce a pro-CO2 paper.