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That is the psychological landscape in which Nixon has always dwelt, the back alley he has roamed and sometimes seems to understand too well. In a way his book is a survival guide for civilized nations surrounded by global punks, chiefly the Soviets. He calls for "détente with deterrence"-shorthand for closer diplomatic and trade relations with the Soviet Union-even as we build the MX and the cruise and Pershing missiles, and improve our conventional forces to achieve a true military balance. Arms don't cause wars, he insists, human intentions do; and only when perceptions...
...longer a matter of form giving, sketching pretty forms on paper. The definition of design incorporates thinking and inventing. We must, for instance, think about ways to recycle appliances. Consumers should be able to dismantle big things like refrigerators into small, disposable parts, rather than leave them in the alley...
...Alley 237 Washington...
...Brooklyn Bridge into the city of everyone's tattered dreams, he is stuck in a rut just off Broadway, teaching jazz dance by day, tending bar at night. Encouraged by his palfriend Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), Tony auditions for the chorus of a musical called Satan's Alley-a sort of rock musical comedy version of Dante's Inferno-and falls for Laura, the show's star (Finola Hughes). Tony gets the job because, as the musical's choreographer tells him, "you have anger and a certain intensity. And that's what I need...
...always, Travolta is urban gorgeous and very charming. The rest of the film is neither. It brandishes the New York look, where every man needs a shave, and every woman a Porcelana rubdown. The Satan's Alley production numbers, full of grinding pelvises, heavy metaphors and a climactic ascending platform, have all the pretensions of Cats or a Bob Fosse musical but with none of the spirited style; this show would never get to previews. Stallone seems not to have noticed or cared. He heads off in opposite directions-toward 42nd Street and Flashdance Avenue-and loses himself...