Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal smiles are fading fast. Until now the trade relationship between the U.S. and Japan has been handled with relative congeniality, especially considering the rising tensions on each side. Practically every potential crisis has been forestalled with cool-headed talks and bilateral agreements. But what seemed at worst a spirited competition between two trade giants last week escalated into a confrontation that could, if not handled carefully, develop into an old-fashioned trade war. In an extraordinary change of tone on the controversial issue of trade with Japan, the Reagan Administration announced plans to impose drastic 100% duties on several...
...soak," objects Anthropology Curator Robert Carneiro of the American Museum of Natural History. Other academics point out that the theory has been suggested before and remains speculative. But Katz claims no proprietary insight. "We all know nothing is so simple as a single cause," he observes. Having a tall cool one, however, "is maybe a more important part of the process toward domestication than we had previously thought...
...times Wilson asks too much: not even Jones can make this man, so cool and competitive toward his sons, believably ecstatic at word that he is "gonna be somebody's daddy" by an unseen mistress. And it is unlikely that he and his wife, so eager for respectability, would debate this news in the backyard, with neighbors' windows a dozen feet away. Nonetheless, in craftsmanship, poignance and lingering impact, Fences represents a major step forward for Wilson. In the decade or so since the emergence of David Mamet, the American stage has not heard so impassioned and authentic...
...Anton, without seeming quite aware of what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that warms this cool film, by Monique...
...Polite and businesslike" was the way White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described last week's meeting between British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock and President Ronald Reagan. "Cool tending toward frosty" might have been more apt. The President criticized Labor's call for British nuclear disarmament, saying it not only hurt NATO but "undercut our negotiating position at Geneva...