Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't right. What's New and Good-bye I couldn't sing at all. But I could sing them in the shower, so I knew there was some thing wrong with the arrangements." She abandoned the record ("Doing that killed me") and instead made Get Closer, a fine, smooth and entirely typical Ronstadt album that has sold under her recent platinum-record standard...
...simple tale into a complex metaphor for some of the driving forces of modern society. As he concludes:" ...if the vision of an integrated and equal society, free from racism and discrimination, which impelled Rickey and Robinson to launch their 'great experiment' remains unfulfilled, their efforts have brought it closer to reality...
...significant setbacks in its geopolitical strategy. Such a nation must be either so brazen that a policy of detente is hopeless (and fallout shelters a national priority) or very afraid of its adversary's military potential. Most conservatives would argue the first point. Yet the second interpretation seems much closer to reality...
...pilot of the Su-15 decides (or is told by ground control) that he needs to get closer to the target. He accelerates and gets within a little more than a mile of the jumbo jet, which remains oblivious to the danger. Simultaneously, he turns off his weapons' lock-on system so that he can reposition it properly later, when he is ready to fire. Once again, he reports to the ground that 007's strobe light is blinking...
...landscape in which Nixon has always dwelt, the back alley he has roamed and sometimes seems to understand too well. In a way his book is a survival guide for civilized nations surrounded by global punks, chiefly the Soviets. He calls for "détente with deterrence"-shorthand for closer diplomatic and trade relations with the Soviet Union-even as we build the MX and the cruise and Pershing missiles, and improve our conventional forces to achieve a true military balance. Arms don't cause wars, he insists, human intentions do; and only when perceptions of the futility...