Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death--Lesley fails to attend the funeral. The difference shows in small ways perhaps even more vividly: Nicky goes to a New York library for some detective research and feels bad because a Puerto Rican girl his own age must fetch a book for him. Lesley, behind her armor, would never have noticed...
...dynasty tomb in Man-Ch'eng, less than 100 miles from Peking, it has already become an object of legend-the Chinese counterpart (at least in Western eyes) to Tutankhamon's gold mask. This is partly due to its extraordinary substance and workmanship: a complete body-armor of 2,156 slips of green and mutton-fat jade, each no bigger than a matchbook cover, intricately sewn and bound together with gold wire. Its archaeological interest is unique: ancient Chinese texts mentioned jade burial armor as the special privilege of imperial blood, but Tu Wan's shroud-together...
There is a fusing of the steel of modern architecture with the armor of medieval soldiers. Even the terrible knocking at the gate is not the usual pounding on wood but instead a clanking on metal. This is a cool, gray world. The huge portraits of Duncan and later of Macbeth and his wife, which are dropped down from the grid, are not colored oils; they are stark black-and-white photographs. Touches of color in this production are rare, and thus all the more striking...
...night before his departure, Brezhnev spoke on television, as Nixon had done in Moscow. "The Soviet Union and the U.S. are self-sufficient, but to remove cooperation is to turn down substantial benefits," he told Americans. "Mankind has outgrown the cold-war armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully." The U.S. and Russia are only at the "beginning of a long road" that will require "constant care, tireless efforts and patience...
...Wall. Even worse, the delegates could not agree on a name for the negotiations. The NATO powers proposed that it be called a conference for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR). That seemingly innocuous suggestion ran into a Soviet stone wall. Because East bloc nations have more troops and armor in Central Europe and even larger numbers near by, any "balanced" reduction would force a greater numerical cut upon them than upon Western nations. As a result, almost every meaningful word was slashed from the official communique of the first session, and the conference was blandly described as "the consultations...