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Only then can the Crimson apply the pressure they will need to score on the Minutewomen's "steel curtain" defense...
...hope springs eternal. The savings from a canceled B-2 could double the salary of every teacher in America next year, and that need hasn't vanished with the Iron Curtain...
...Simply that the Iron Curtain that once separated East and West will be erected between North and South. The only way to get out of that danger will be to have a global trade agreement that will allow a flow of capital, ideas and goods from North to South, making the world more interdependent and enabling the South to catch...
...anticipation one associates with an empty stage. (Hence they were a powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the landscape of La Grande Jatte, without its 50 or so people, its monkey and two dogs. The curtain has risen on this green paradise, and the cast will filter on, one at a time, throughout the subsequent studies -- the St.-Cyr cadet, the lady with the monkey but without her attendant gentleman...
Lyndon Johnson, the master persuader, thought he could work a little magic with Alexei Kosygin at the Glassboro summit in 1967 and slow arms sales to the troubled Middle East. Kosygin joined heartily in swapping stories about going hungry and chopping wood as boys. But the cold curtain came down when they got around to discussing a deal to ease tension. L.B.J. emerged from that meeting, his long face sagging, and told his National Security Adviser, Walt Rostow, "I've used everything I know, but I think I've failed...