Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, Rowny and Karpov are still far apart as the 1984 presidential campaign gets under way-and if Ronald Reagan is feeling politically vulnerable on foreign policy issues-he may decide to retreat from his bold but one-sided opening proposal and settle for a limited, interim agreement. That way, he could claim to have accomplished something more in strategic arms control than just to have made a stubborn and unsuccessful try. -By Strobe Talbott
...excessive dependence of city governments and city dwellers on the Federal Government." The report called for the Administration to make sharp cutbacks in such aid. In the phrases that most embittered local officials at the conference, the statement said that the recipients of the help had been transformed "from bold leaders of self-reliant cities to wily stalkers of federal funds...
Despite a weak and wavering economy, the British are feeling feisty and bold from the success of their Falklands ad venture. In a survey conducted by the Economist, 71% of the those polled would support tax increases to keep a garrison indefinitely in the Falklands. The government is ready to station as many as 3,000 troops on the islands at a cost estimated at $37 million per month. British defense planners are now mulling over the upgrading of the country's naval forces, which had been badly depleted by prior-year retrenchments. To mount its assault, Britain...
...Stravinsky marathon was a success anyway. The troupe gathered and displayed its grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
Even further removed from aesthetic or social sense is Mailer's assay of Henry Miller. More than 40 years ago, when it was bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...