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Each man put his own gloss on the joint statement. To Reagan the issue was "Will we join together in sharply reducing offensive nuclear arms and moving to nonnuclear defensive strengths for systems to make this a safer world?" Countered Gorbachev: "We must not let the arms race move off into space, and we must cut it down on earth...
Stratford's style serves well for Lear, a robust and propulsive production of a play that is explicitly about great emotions. But the hard gloss reduces the subtler depths of Twelfth Night to mere giggles and kickshaws. Seeing these productions together may enable modern audiences to understand why earlier critics revered the Bard's tragedies but undervalued his comedies, overlooking their moral complexity and their glimpses of humiliation and pain in commoners' everyday life. The stress on low comic exaggeration also robs Twelfth Night of much of its social consequence: there is little sense that the battle between Sir Toby...
...office. Others wanted to experiment sexually with a disposable partner. But most seemed to drift into sexual relationships with a man they had previously pigeonholed as a friend, not a lover. By convincing themselves that the man would somehow remain merely a friend, these women even managed to gloss over sexual intercourse. The first act of sex, Richardson writes, can be rationalized as "a temporary aberration that does not alter the original basis of the relationship...
...voters in metro Denver approve of his job performance, but 61% of folks in the region, including the Republican-leaning outlying suburbs, rate the mayor favorably as well, according to a new poll. Asked to explain his popularity, Hickenlooper fumbles for an answer. "I try not to gloss over reality," he says. "If I don't know the answer, I'll say that...
...were either children or not yet born. Kohl came to office determined to play a role abroad commensurate with his country's flourishing democracy, strong support for NATO, and eminence as the non-Communist world's third-largest economic power. Internally, he intended to put a new gloss on national pride and patriotism by increased emphasis on symbols such as the red, black and gold national flag and more frequent playing of the national anthem...