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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon scientists as too great to permit a single Soviet warhead from knocking out more than one MX, but close enough so that the blasts from the first enemy warheads would disable those coming in behind. This Fratricide theory is untested and much debated among nuclear physicists (see box). If the theory is valid, more than half the MX missiles would survive an initial attack...
...accusations flew, only the French openly blamed GATT and the free trading systems for the world's current economic ills. With his nation stirring controversy in Europe over an ingenious new barrier against Japanese video recorders (see box), acerbic French Trade Minister Michel Jobert lambasted U.S. free trade principles as a "formula of dogmatic liberalism" yielding "subtle" forms of protectionism, and argued that in any case high interest rates and currency fluctuations, not trade barriers, caused joblessness...
...adds the film's writer Stewart Stern. "He's constantly trying to provide a setting where the world can see what he sees in her." He has directed her twice since then, in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and The Shadow Box. In the first of these, their pretty blond daughter Nell (then 13, now 23) played opposite Joanne...
...reportedly dealing to buy into Showtime, the second largest pay cable network; and Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. announced an agreement to purchase the Movie Channel, the third largest. The immediate effect is likely to be an increase in the cable licensing fees of popular movies, especially to Home Box Office, the giant of pay TV. The ultimate goal may be to re-establish the studios' control of exhibition, abolished in 1948 by a Supreme Court consent decree...
...placed at the disposal of feeling. His paintings look abstract but are full of echoes of figures, rooms, sociable encounters; they are small, "unheroic" but exquisitely phrased. The space they evoke is closed, artificial, without horizon or other legible references to landscape. One seems to be looking into a box full of colored flats and wings-a marionette stage, behind whose proscenium the blobs and cylinders of color glow with shivering, theatrical ebullience. "Curious," as the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarked in a recent essay on Hodgkin's work, "that no one has recognized in Hodgkin...