Word: diversionism
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The task of making sure that countries adhere to nonproliferation standards is both a routine and a highly delicate business for the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. The routine aspect involves the inspection work itself, which is carried out by more than 250 specially trained technicians from some 45...
-- In Washington and elsewhere, nonproliferation experts are concerned over an erosion of confidence in the inspection apparatus of the International Atomic Energy Agency; the system is designed to monitor adherence to nonproliferation standards. The concern focuses on the "safeguards" sponsored by the I.A.E.A. to detect the diversion of peaceful atomic...
Nutty? Kooky? Surely, but that's what America is all about in Don DeLillo's White Noise. This book is a paradox: unrelentingly frivolous, its moribund satire of our techno-whizbang pop culture is ultimately depressing. White Noise swirls with the sounds of contemporary life--televisions, radios, appliances, sirens. The...
The award was once worth caring about. Since 1947, when the Italian film Shoeshine was the first foreign-language film to receive an Oscar, the category has honored both landmark art (The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Through a Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm...
"We can and want to continue the game," protested Karpov half convincingly after Campomanes' announcement. "As we say in Russia, rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." (Apparently, Russians read and claim Mark Twain.) Kasparov, who had been sitting in the back of the hall, was stunned. Striding onto...