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...then Beart (Manon in Manon of the Spring, the painter's model in La Belle Noiseuse) is an actress of such extraordinary beauty that any time she falls in movie love she seems like a goddess slumming. Her radiant face is , therapeutic. A glance from her should thaw the frostiest heart...
...course, the U.S. still wants to deter Israel from initiating conflicts in the region, especially nuclear conflicts. But Israel is most likely to conform its behavior to American requests when American abandonment is a credible threat--when U.S./Israeli relations are frostiest. If Israel were confident of unqualified American support, it would be unwilling to exhibit such remarkable restraint while absorbing Iraqi Scuds...
This disorder may sound like a mere coldness of temperament. It's not, although it seems to be one of the frostiest rules of society: to care to a certain extent about various individuals around you, you have to distance yourself from the chatterboxes who would have you know every curious thing, and memorize every curious conclusion, about every other human in your hallway. These same petty details, unfortunately, are what often pass for social contact...
Foreign Policy. Reagan has shown more flexibility than his hard-line campaign rhetoric indicated, but the jury is still out. Though he steered U.S.-Soviet relations to their frostiest point in decades, the President has also put forward sweeping arms-control proposals; their negotiability remains to be seen. Subduing his strong pro-Israeli inclinations, he announced last September a sensible and promising peace plan for the Middle East, but neither side has yet accepted it even as a basis for negotiations. Relations with European allies, a high Reagan priority, were badly damaged by the Administration's ill-considered sanctions...
...hallmark of national life while sweeping politics, art, literature, law, history--anything humane--under the academic carpet. Harvard bought most, but not all, of this concept, insisting on adding studies of society. The outcome is a two-headed monster chair of 'Korean economics and society' untraceable in the frostiest depths of any previous academic Loch Ness...