Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second theory discounts the impact of Washington's China stroke and argues that the Geneva talks have been temporarily stalled by a familiar Soviet bargaining tactic. Said Richard Perle, an aide to Senator Henry Jackson and a stern but widely respected critic of SALT: "The Soviets bargain especially hard at the eleventh hour. They see us as pliant, and they have learned to expect that stonewalling will win further concessions from us." A senior Administration official conceded: "They sensed that we were eager for SALT. And so they introduced additional issues. It's a typical Soviet bargaining tactic...
...Club, an architectural gem on Fifth Avenue. In a plastic case under a high-vaulted ceiling is a copy of the New York Tribune, opened to the same day of the same month 100 years ago. Lyet is always reassured to read that the worries of 1879 have a familiar ring. "There were problems with international relations. Somebody was always threatening somebody else. And people were getting mugged on 88th Street...
Moore wants buildings to "freshen one's perception of the familiar," rather than turn Pop into a sequence of quotations à la Venturi. He uses space with originality. It is not the "universal" grid-space, the abstract Raum-with-a-view of Bauhaus thought, but a choppily processional medium, full of ambiguities and kinks, stagy...
...cannot quite escape her galumphing post-adolescent self, though it must be added that the intimacy of a small off-Broadway house and an adaptation that stresses the familiar agonies of growing up at the expense of Anne Frank's singularity do not help her. Neither does Martin Fried's direction, which is more serviceable than subtle...
...London home, ridden by a five-year-old grandson. Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with his daughters, the Promethean capacity for work, the hopeless improvidence with money, the raging, pitiless hatreds for fellow Socialists who failed to follow his dictates. The least familiar persona is Marx the philanderer. Here he is, at 43, unrestrainedly wooing his 24-year-old cousin during a fund-raising expedition to The Netherlands. Six years later, in 1867, he is passionately reciting poetry to an attractive gentlewoman during a similar expedition to Hanover...