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...movie set, a dashing movie star: Kevin Kline. Like the young Olivier, whom he eerily resembles, Kline has shuttled successfully between stage (The Pirates of Penzance) and screen (The Big Chill). Last summer in Central Park he portrayed Richard III as a passionate black comedian who got sexual shivers from doing ill. Henry V offers a subtler challenge. Taken at handsome face value, he is the noble conqueror of a contemptuous nation. Henry is also a bit of a prig: "The cold-bath king," Ralph Richardson called him, "the exaltation of all scoutmasters." Beneath the glamorous raiment one can also...
...clear implication was that if Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko would just climb up, the two world leaders could sit together at the summit and begin to thaw the big chill between the superpowers. Reagan's calming words marked a clear departure from his old hard line against a summit. But few experts expected the new tone to lead to a superpower sitdown any time soon...
...could no longer do business with Washington. NATO had begun deployment missiles in Western Europe, in response the Soviets had stalked away from every negotiating table where the superpowers had been discussing nuclear arms control. Yet in the four months since Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov, the chill factor from Moscow has intensified. The trend is all the more noticeable because it contrasts so sharply with President Reagan's new and uncharacteristically conciliatory tone (see NATION...
...them tell it, the climate of relations is at its worst since the most frigid days of the cold war. Nor is the deterioration just a matter of degree, it is a quantum jump downward to a whole new level of nastiness. By Moscow's estimate, the big chill is not merely disagreeable, it is dangerous: World War III, while not necessarily imminent, is more imaginable in the current atmosphere than before. Who do the Soviets blame for this alarming state of affairs? Ronald Reagan, whom they have recently started comparing to Adolf Hitler. The Kremlin leaders and their...
...chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...