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...Asking price: $269,000. A plump woman walking by wearing a muumuu said, "It may sound high, but you pay to be close to the beach. The air is better." Down at the beach in Santa Monica, at Ocean Boulevard Park, the government had erected a sign: NOTICE. BLUFF SUBJECT TO SLIDES. USE PARK AT YOUR OWN RISK. This...
Critics dismiss some of the bankruptcy talk as a scare tactic. Says Michael Totten, director of the Critical Mass Energy Project, a Washington conservation group: "It could be a bluff or a negotiating ploy. You can get a lot of mileage by scaring people. The companies have found a new weapon to force states to raise rates...
...that the meeting must "hold out the promise then that something might be accomplished." Reagan believes that "get-acquainted" meetings between Khrushchev and Kennedy in 1961 and Johnson and Kosygin in 1967 produced no results, and indeed heightened tensions.* The Soviets could, of course, call Reagan's bluff and offer to sit down before November. "We'd say, 'Let's have a summit,' " says a White House aide. But the Reaganauts are confident that the Soviets will not ask. "They have shown no interest at all," says the adviser. The Soviets have no desire...
...Palacio d'Oriente, historically the residence of Spanish monarchs, stretches ominously across a high bluff overlooking Madrid. A museum currently occupies its 2800 rooms, with the main hall used for an occasional state dinner. But King Juan Carlos prefers to live in a compact 20-room estate on the outskirts of the capital...
Through the '70s, his pictures rose steadily in price. Bluff and leprechaun-like, Adams became a peripatetic public figure. Artistically, his popularity reflected the fact that his classic 19th century style possessed more than a trace of romanticism. "People look at my pictures," he said a few years ago, "and then accept them, in a sense, as reality." But it was the heightened reality of a photographer who made nature seem like Nature. "You don't take a photograph, you make it," he once said. Adams made himself into a photographer and then made others see the world...