Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western policy makers would have the United States "out arms race" the Soviets Given our relative economic strength, the argument goes, it is only a matter of time before the USSR gives in Proponents of this game of geopolitical chicken ignore of course the vast waste of resources and danger inherent in nuclear weapons. More important, as Goldman's book suggests, the Soviets seem more likely in the long run to "our arms race" the West. Thanks to an authoritarian political system, and economy geared toward the production of weapons and a people willing and accustomed to sacrifice, the USSR...
THERE is, as President Reagan would say, a clear and present danger to U.S. interests posed by the ongoing conflict in El Salvador. But that danger comes not so much from the Salvadoran left as it does from the Administration's refusal to seek a compromise between the guerillas and the right. Washington's plan--announced last week--to increase the number of U.S. military "advisors" in El Salvador is a disturbing sign that the worst may be yet to come...
...Counters Washington: "If the Republicans think they can beat me, they've got holes in their heads." After last week's unexpected outcome, however, some experts are cautious. "Democrats in Chicago start with enormous advantages," said Washington's pollster, Pat Caddell. "But there is always the danger of movement...
...track audio, Jagger sounds as if he were shouting through a ski mask. The rest of the band sounds tired. But the Stones' geriatric groupies and their children, who made this tour a $35 million to $40 million bonanza, hold to their act of faith in the sustaining danger of oldtime rock 'n' roll. How does the song go? You can't always get what you want,/ But if you try some time/ You just might find/ You get what you believe...
...minor defects of his major virtues. He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed. Occasionally, his characters were too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols sometimes multiplied like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger was the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art, whose tendency has been to gaze inward and contemplate the artist's ego, as well as his navel, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Almost inevitably, he suffered the attrition of dramatic power that afflicts most playwrights after...