Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contra probers. Not even silicon chips offer much promise anymore. Those electronic messages that national-security staffers zapped to one another's computer screens, which were fortunately recorded in deep memory for future scribes, violated the cardinal rule of modern government: never leave footprints. Electronic memory shredders will, no doubt, be a feature of the next generation of DELETE keys...
Future historians will no doubt find different source material. Instead of rummaging through the Beinecke Library at Yale, they will spend their time in video archives watching old segments of Nightline and the MacNeil-Lehrer report. "So much is preserved in audio and visual these days," says Morris, "that it gives you much of a person's life and demeanor." Well, yes, the historians of the next century will be a lot more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about...
...Without doubt, Syrian-Iranian tension was at the heart of the case. If the Syrians had been angered by Glass's abduction, they were shocked by last month's incident in Saudi Arabia at the holy city of Mecca, where thousands of Iranian Shi'ite pilgrims staged a bloody riot against Saudi authority. This, in turn, caused other Arab leaders to urge Assad to stop supporting Iran in the gulf war -- a step that would cost him his right to buy Iranian oil at heavily discounted prices. According to Syrian diplomats, Damascus has warned Iran against widening...
...this show -- the first attempt by a U.S. museum at a conspectus of the subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
...whereas it is the simplicity of Costner and Young's love affair that charms viewers (there's never any doubt from first eye-contact on that they will make a picture-postcard couple, romping hand-in-hand through D.C., sailing happily in Annapolis Bay...), simple doesn't quite make it in the world of high-stakes political intrigue...