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...have no new Western missiles installed since 1979. Behind this distorted Soviet view lies the desire to maintain the strategic superiority built up since the late 1970s, and to thereby decouple the U.S. from its European allies. As long as there is a realistc chance that the Soviets can attain this goat, they will reject any equitable compromise out of hand (as they did recently). Only the threatened deployment of 572 Pershing II and Cruise missiles brought the Soviets to the bargaining table at Geneva, and now Mr. Louis wants to remove this threat unilaterally, an action that would clearly...
...almost no sustained movement on stage. When Waiting for Godot was first produced thirty years ago, reviewers called it boring and meaningless. Today, it is a staple in most dramatic repertories; it remains to be seen whether these two pieces of 1976 and 1981--though tedious and difficult--will attain equal popularity. Certainly an open mind is essential for any viewer of these plays, with or without any familiarity with Beckett's other work...
...potent comic gifts, Simon looks back, not in anger, remorse or undue guilt but with fondly nourished compassion, at himself as an adolescent in 1937 and at the almost asphyxiatingly close-knit family around him. While the play housed at Broadway's Alvin Theater does not fully attain the playwright's highest aims, it does give off compelling glints of an urban Morning's at Seven, a ghetto Our Town and a wryly caustic Ah, Wilderness! Like them, Brighton Beach Memoirs belongs to the family genre where the passwords are forgive and remember...
...almost gained even more. After Bowman's icebreaker the Saints attacked with a vengeance, fired up by the goal they had taken so long to attain. Ray Shero score off a pileup in front of the Wildcat net just 18 seconds later, and the Larries had suddenly halved the UNH margin...
...short statement he also plans to enclose with his application, Goodman explained "Harvard will be the catalyst needed to attain my political aspirations...