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...heading both the Defense Agency and the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Says a U.S. diplomat based in Tokyo: "Nakasone is one of the few Japanese who understands the seriousness of the problems we face in trade and defense. He is likely to confront them in a forthright manner...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...reports from home were decidedly unfavourable. As Andrew and Koo gamboled about Mustique, a tiny island paradise belonging to the Princess Margaret (herself the focus of considerable scandal over the years). Buckingham Palace was keeping busy fielding questions and making surprisingly forthright statements. At first, palace spokesmen claimed that the Queen was upset with her son only because he had "sneaked off" without telling after she left for Australia. But the palace was more explicitly outraged later in the week. All I can say is that the queen is furious at his indiscretion and his lack of honesty in explaining...
What detains the eye in a Welliver is, in part, his assertion of "abstract" readings within a very forthright and apparently realistic transcription of raw nature. Typically, his spaces are shallow and entangled. You are on the forest floor, in a cavern of green and gray, gazing at an almost impenetrable screen of slender tree-trunks, fallen branches, brush, lichens and rocks. There is no horizon line to offer visual release: just more forest, dappled and blotched with light. The surface is not oppressively congested-for at his best, in paintings like Late Light, 1978, or Shadow, 1977, Welliver...
...brings a certain forthright flair to his writing, as well. His account of his unheralded trip to the Soviet Union to negotiate the release of imprisoned dissidents--a venture that paid off dramatically years later--is moving, indeed. His description of the predicament of two teenage brothers on death row for murders their father committed with them helplessly in tow reads like a thriller. (It's also one case Dershowitz has yet to win.) He does spend a little too much time harking back to his Brooklyn roots in Boro Park, and his puns inspire cringes. But on the whole...