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...fiendish design, the highest points on earth loom tantalizingly at the limits of mankind's physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...answer is simple," he said. "The problem of nuclear weapons is an extremely volatile issue. Months, at least, would have to be dedicated to lift the ominous curtain of world destruction...
Reagan expects to hit human rights almost as hard as Gorbachev will stress INF and a test ban. He will press once again for more Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., reunification of families divided by the Iron Curtain, release of other Soviet dissidents besides Orlov, and less internal repression generally. American experts concede there has been little sign of Soviet give on any of these matters: the best one can predict is a "long, tough discussion." Reagan's advisers are convinced the Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear...
...grandmother likes to remind me of the time she, my grandfather and I went to dinner after one of his bowling matches. We walked into the restaurant, sat down, and I began to cry. My grandfather asked me what was wrong, and through a curtain of tears, I muttered, "We left the bowling ball...
...film opens stunningly. A blue velvet curtain furls like a stage partition, and in the foreground credits emerge and fade. Bobbie Vinton's "Blue Velvet" wells up, and Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with...