English citations of Exxon

  • 1990, Bertie Charles Forbes, Forbes, volume 145, numbers 1-6, page 39:
    Fumes Lou Berg, president of the Video Software Dealers Association and a video store owner: "It seems when something's hot, like E.T. or Batman, you could go to an Exxon car wash and find the tape below cost.
  • 1990 March 21, Kevin Maney, “Importing a trend”, in USA Today:
    Based on its U.S. studies, Dentsu has been trying to persuade Japanese firms to take on a more environmentally friendly image. Says another Dentsu official, David Hostetler, " We show them the Exxon example of what happens when you're not environmentally safe.
  • 1992 November 12, Gerri Hirshey, “Being there”, in Rolling Stone, page 53:
    The procession halts at an all-night gas station. She leaps out, breasts jutting from a frontless black lace body stocking, nipples at attention in the drive-by breeze. She bends, straddles the gas hose, starts to pump. Alabaster skin and oil stains, an Exxon eroticon.
  • 2003, Sari Horwitz, Michael Ruane, Sniper: The Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation[1]:
    Across the street at an Exxon station, Edgar Rivera García, a carpenter from Mexico, was sitting in a white Plymouth minivan with a roof rack, talking on a pay phone.