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...family's pieties about mankind have masked a cruel indifference to individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never loses its tight focus on a domestic world as richly evoked as in anything by Galsworthy or Trollope...
...sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This singer's commitment may be total, but it's got as much to do with carnality as idealism...
Twenty years ago next March, China and the Soviet Union appeared to be on the brink of war after a series of skirmishes along their border. After nearly two decades of recurring tensions, trade has broken out across that 4,500-mile frontier -- a commercial boom that may be a prelude to a new rapprochement between the two Communist giants. The U.S. is following these developments with considerable interest. Ever since Richard Nixon made his historic opening to China in the wake of the 1969 border fighting, the American "strategic partnership" with China has been rooted largely in a shared...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis moved to the brink of victory in the Democratic presidential race last night, winning in New Jersey and waiting for California to seal his triumph in a coast-to-coast finale to the primary season. George Bush said he would stress "prosperity and peace" in his fight to hold the White House for the Republicans...
...Indian word for "condor," an ungainly chick, 6.75 oz., pecked its way out of its shell to become the newest member of the embattled clan -- and the first California condor ever conceived in captivity. Said Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel: "This represents a big step back from the brink of extinction...