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...running," she says, are my total tranquilizer." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the cover, is a fitness veteran who started 20 years ago with the Royal Canadian Air Force routine, and now runs regularly, though briefly. Says he: "Running, in any sport, is unquestionably the best way to dispel free-floating angst...
...Reagan Administration has done little to dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...protagonist, Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through...
...major differences," says Walker, "were in the degrees of feelings evoked and the ways they were expressed." To discover whether there may be cultural response patterns elsewhere, Walker plans to take "See & Tell" to London, Paris and Tokyo. "I hope," he says, "we may be able to either dispel or confirm many existing cultural stereotypes." -By Sara Medina. Reported by Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York
Still, the U.S. and the five-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)* hoped that the conference would provide what Washington termed a "framework for settlement" and offer some inducements for Hanoi to retreat from its costly adventure. ASEAN introduced a plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established...