Less than two miles of beaches have been cleaned up so far, though the company says these are the most heavily oiled.

You lie suspended, face up and heavily oiled, on what's essentially a heated mini water bed.

A mane of jet black hair fell to his shoulders, with heavily oiled and scented ringlets.

Chook had him heavily oiled against additional burn.

By then, heavily oiled marshes had become the staple subject of television crews and photographers.

The experience could have been better only if I'd been lying on a beach, heavily oiled.

Her admin- istrator, a heavily oiled and grotesque lady, came in one morning and told her to clear - 35 out her desk by the following day.

"It's better when we clean the heavily oiled beaches, and get them down to medium-oiled," said the state co-ordinator, William D. (Pete) McGee.

Skimmer crews continued to extract globs of oil from the Kill, which separates Bayonne, N.J., from Staten Island, while other workers cleaned the rocks on the heavily oiled Bayonne shoreline, said Capt. Robert C. North of the Coast Guard, who is Captain of the Port.

Now the heavily oiled beaches are down to four miles, Mr. Piper said, he had little doubt that Exxon would agree to continue working if the oil was still there in the spring.