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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muffy is wistfully jealous of her friend's maturity and develops a crush on a preppy heartbreaker. When he spurns her, she turns back to the steady, unexciting Malcolm (George O'Hanlon Jr.). They abandon their virginity on Christmas Eve with all of the uncertainty but none of the accomplishment that characterized Abby's liaison. Muffy blames it all on her never-ending bad luck, the consequences of which approach sentimental catastrophe when she becomes pregnant...
Almost ready to abandon his project, Marchetti met John Marks, who was working as an aide to Senator Clifford Case. Together, Marchetti and Marks revised the manuscript, with Marks contributing a section on relations between the press and the CIA. They submitted the manuscript to the agency in August 1973. It was returned with 339 deletions indicated. Some of the excisions were baffling or perhaps simply inexpertly done. Chapter 2, for example, begins with a deleted remark by Henry Kissinger. Yet another passage makes clear that he was discussing a CIA project to prevent the 1970 election of Chilean President...
...letter, Solzhenitsyn asked the Kremlin leaders to abandon Marxist ideology, as the root of all Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is used only as a "fagade" to preserve the power of the leadership and a totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn, he contends, makes the same mistake in attributing ideological motives to the leaders of Communist China, whom Sakharov regards as "no less pragmatic than our own." He also thinks that Solzhenitsyn has "overdramatized" the threat...
Bangladesh's decision to abandon the war-crimes trials was a major concession. But it had been more or less expected after Prime Minister Zulfikar...
...Ginastera-is true to type. It appears to be set in Brazil, or perhaps Inca-era Peru. The curtain rises to disclose a corps of dancers entwined in suggestively statuesque poses. Later, most of the couples writhe languidly on the floor in what might generously be regarded as orgasmic abandon. According to one associate of the company, Ceremonials is jokingly referred to backstage as Raw Sex. Overdone might be a better adjective...