Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a melancholy echo these days for Richard Helms, former head of the CIA, as he trudges to the Pentagon and pulls up a chair in the somber interior of Room 3E333. He and ten other members of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces have been asked to design the free world's nuclear deterrent for the rest of this century. Helms' entire adult life has been given to studying and acting against forces that would quell freedom. The problem probably cannot be solved for more than a few years at a time, a fact...
...from the middle and upper classes and seek savings in defense and entitlement programs. If he does not, Senators like Kansas' Robert Dole will take over the job that their constituencies are telling them should be done. A thousand other small actions in state government and city councils echo this refrain...
...patrol the streets, three mercenary armies camp atop a 7,200-ft. mountain near by. Among them are Khun Sa's mercenaries and their local allies. In the surrounding jungle are the rival forces of a pro-Communist warlord known as ABe. Periodically, bursts of machine-gun fire echo down the mountainside. Ambushes are frequent, and victims seldom receive a proper burial. Says a Western narcotics agent: "There seems to be only one rule when warlords fight. Kill anything that moves...
Warnecke, based in San Francisco, had won national acclaim for his ability to design buildings that do not flaunt their modernity but get along well with older neighbors, notably two office buildings opposite the White House whose brick facades effectively echo the residential accents of surrounding Lafayette Square...
...takes no sorcerer's power to realize that this other land is one small leap of the imagination from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and that Jen's adventures will frequently echo the Hobbit Frodo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings. As narrative, the incidents in The Dark Crystal are unremarkable; as the excuse for special effects, fanciful decor and eccentric characters, they do nicely enough. Here, as in such ambitious films as Blade Runner and Diva, texture is more important than text. The slow funeral procession of Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis...