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...Arab-Israeli relationship. He had reaffirmed to the Reagan Administration that he and moderate Palestinians were interested in negotiations with Israel. He had told Reagan that he had gone over the details of his Washington statement with Arafat before coming to the U.S., and thus was conveying Arafat's "explicit" endorsement of the U.N. resolutions that implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Said Hussein: "Every word . . . in my statement is a result of agreement between us and the P.L.O...
...promise embedded in the treaty. To some of the more militant Third World countries, that failure smacks of hypocrisy. The biggest fear is that one of the restive nations might withdraw from the treaty at the September session; if that happened, it would mean a calamitous setback, the first explicit unraveling of the world's major nonproliferation accord...
...back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto's tome. But it has one crucial advantage: Rader genuinely...
While the newspapers continued to refer euphemistically to V.D. as a "rare blood disease," and the U.S. Post Office banned the pamphlet What Every Girl Should Know because of its explicit references to gonorrhea, physicians became more vocal in supporting sex education and moralistic in abhorring the vices, "bred in the pestilential hot house atmosphere of dark, dirty, ill-ventilated homes, which induce ... abnormal cravings...
Part of the secret of his success is that his eclecticism creates surface expectations of major art (complexity, depth, psychic intensity and so on) without discharging them in explicit meanings. He wittily exploits the affinity between artist and charlatan. A symbolist with roller skates, he moves very quickly across a vast terrain of appropriated motifs, and the results are usually banal. Even in today's morass of worthless "personal" imagery, it would be hard to find a sillier painting than one in the Castelli show of a green whirlpool a la Poe with a man and his separated genitals disappearing...