Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return two or three times during a trip to chat, quip, tell jokes and stories about foreign leaders or spin out grand stratagems while nibbling peanuts or candy. Vance is more reserved and is still feeling his way. He rarely comes back to chat, but he invites the press forward for regular news conferences...
...someone had been seated just one row forward, he might have lived instead of died. If there had been no terrorist bombing at Las Palmas. If the KLM plane had not refueled, would its lighter weight have provided a lifesaving extra lift? If KLM had waited just 30 seconds more to take off. If Pan Am had moved a bit faster to its exit?or slower...
...shuttling montages. Revolulion provided a subject matter for unexpected artists. Who, for insiance, would have supposed that Marc Chagall, whose studio for the past 35 years has been a kitsch factory producing the same sugary brides, bouquels and flying lovers, was in his youth capable of an image like Forward, 1917, with its arrowy figure leaping againsl a bright red quadrilateral...
Despite his angry words and Khrushchev-like fist pounding, Brezhnev conceded that a new SALT accord, based on the 1974 Vladivostok agreement, was still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
...lamely explained that she had been beaten because of "mistakes and excesses" committed since the emergency was declared. Until last week, the Soviets had had nothing but praise for her tough emergency measures, and had attacked her opponents as "reactionaries" and "black marketeers." Now, said Izvestiya, Moscow was looking forward to friendly relations with the new government...