Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is where Allen's strength lies. He does not appear to entertain the grand strategic notions of previous National Security Advisers such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as a close aide to Kissinger worked with Allen on the NSC: "He has never claimed to be a great theorist of foreign policy. He has a quick mind and can grasp issues very rapidly, but he is most skilled on the operational side. He is an expediter-in terms of getting staff work organized and of dealing with personalities." Allen demonstrated that skill when...
While the NATO leaders did not entertain the possibility of military reponse, they discussed some risks that Alliance members could face in the event of an invasion. One example: the prospect of hundreds of Polish "boat people" escaping across the icy Baltic Sea, which would pose more than a refugee problem. "Do the Danes or the West Germans go to the protection of fleeing Poles with their frigates or patrol boats, and risk exchanging fire with the Russians?" asked a NATO official...
...humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning out novels that entertain as well as instruct...
...teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers; the show must go on so that the showmen can continue to believe in themselves. The attractive cast does...
That first Game did a lot more than entertain the 3000 spectators who doled out 50 cents on November 13, 1875. That first Crimson-Eli clash had a significant effect on how football developed in America...