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...Administration rejected the legislators' contention that the station violates only the "letter of the treaty -- not its purpose." Frank Gaffney, acting Assistant Secretary of Defense, insisted that the radar is a "significant military project which fundamentally undercuts the ABM treaty." If the Soviets want to convey a new openness on verification, said Gaffney, the proper signal would be the "total dismantling of the illegal installation...
Outlaws is about the evils that men and women do in the name of ideology, patriotism and self-interest. It is also about character as asserted through language. The average tough-guy writer usually relies on a single voice to convey a mannered and often sappy stoicism. Higgins can call up a variety of convincing tones and attitudes that give texture and complexity to his narrative...
...either party," one of his ways of trying to overcome the wimp issue and show he has grit. In addition, most members of the class of '88 are playing that time-honored game (pioneered by William Henry Harrison in 1840) of searching for the log cabin that can convey their just-folks humble heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls "my father ran a cream-and-egg station," and Gephardt always mentions that he is the son of a milkman. Although they are the well-born disadvantaged in such...
Once again art was carrying the kind of meanings that abstraction could not convey, and these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...positively beamed before the audience of 1,400 scientists and businessmen at the Washington Hilton Hotel last week. Declaring that the "sky is the limit," the President pledged unprecedented federal support for private U.S. efforts to develop a suddenly glamorous new breed of materials: superconducting ceramics. The substances can convey electric currents with no loss of energy at temperatures much higher than conventional superconductors. They open the way for such marvels as levitating high-speed trains and tiny but immensely powerful computers. "The breakthroughs in superconductivity bring us to the threshold of a new age," Reagan said...