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...power is banging around loose in the world without being, in a sort of theological sense, justified. The antiwar slogan "No Blood for Oil" proclaimed that unease, as if oil were Miller High Life and not the stuff that powers most of the world's economies. Americans felt the chill of that wrongness when Iraqi women and children were carried, charred by American bombs, out of a Baghdad bunker...
...colleagues at Time Inc. Magazine Co., it seems appropriate to tell you something of how TIME is faring. In short, 1990 was a very good year, considering the state of the economy, thanks to the loyalty of our readers and advertisers. Despite the added economic chill that is one of many sad effects of the gulf war, 1991 looks promising...
...string of policy reversals cast something of a chill on U.S.-Soviet relations as well. Last week the superpowers agreed to postpone the presidential summit that had been scheduled for Feb. 11-13 in Moscow. The ostensible reason was the gulf war and the need for more work on a strategic- arms treaty. But the U.S. was also attempting to indicate its disapproval of the Kremlin's backsliding on reform...
...remember that I was scared. Real scared. So scared that I ran out of my room wearing only a sweatshirt and windbreaker to ward off the subfreezing wind chill. So scared that the cold didn't do anything to stop the nervous sweat running down the small of my back...
...elaborately laid out in advance, when it is both insistently menacing and hypothetical, it loses spontaneity. The waiting makes war seem unnatural. By last week so much premeditation had given a certain pallor to the American mood, a sense of resignation, of mingled apprehension and anger: ^ a kind of chill where passion is supposed to be blazing up at the start of a war. The country had worn itself out, a little bit anyway, by revving its aggressive engines so hard without taking off the brakes...