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Words, not deeds, have now become the measure of superpower relations. After each new difficulty, it seems, Washington and Moscow have tried to match charge with countercharge. As the distance separating the U.S. and the Soviet Union has grown wider, those words have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation...
...conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists a year come to yell, some of them at the same time: their goal is to hear the echo of their voices rebound from the mountain amphitheater. As one distraught Swiss expert puts it, "We are making this place the Disneyland of Europe...
Murmurs of Italian, English, French and German rose from the audience, filling the faint empty echo left by the absent Soviets, Hungarians, Poles and Bulgarians. Roars, shouts and groans were punctuated by the supplications, gestures of profound disbelief and uniquely affecting howls of "Aaaoowww!" from the fencers. "The players always assume their roles," explained Robert Blum, a New York lawyer who fenced on two Olympic teams. "As with all sports, fencing is a mode of communication. The fencers are telling us something about themselves." As Mathias Gey of West Germany was eliminated, he sank to his knees, crouched in defeat...
Unlike Three O'Clock or Echo and the Bunnymen, Husker Du is not just reviving psychedelia: they are revitalizing it, which, if you think about it, is kind of ironic. In the late sixties, much of the psychedelic music of the Byrds, the Beatles and Love were created through intensive and deliberate studio work. Now, 15 years later, Husker Du is bringing back the spirit and sound of psychedelia by keeping as far away from the studio as is humanly possible...
...recurrent theme is that a nation born of ideals has, in its attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best-known novelists, Amos Oz, plaintively asked in his book In the Land of Israel: "What will become of us? What can be done...