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...consumer goods. In that context, Tikhonov criticized the loss of trade with the U.S., which has dropped by more than 50% the past year. "It is not our fault that trade with the U.S.A. is declining," said Tikhonov in an obvious reference to Jimmy Carter's post-Afghanistan grain embargo. "That is a result of U.S. policy, which uses trade for unseemly political ends...
...home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women are expected to toil for their keep. Poor Albin, forced to live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...
...literary tricks, the epiphanies and the neat endings, the sly references and displays of prodigious learning. Instead he revels in our perversity. He points to the airports, the pimps and the pinups and remains dazzled, amazed, repulsed and fascinated. He distills it all and produces the literary equivalent of grain Alcohol--a genuine Purple Jesus...
Since Afghanistan, the U.S. has pretty much thrown away its carrots-SALT, grain sales, cultural exchanges, etc.-and resorted exclusively to waving sticks (and not very big ones at that). President Reagan has expressed a preference for open, Jackson-style, quid pro quo linkage. Henry Kissinger criticized this approach in the mid-'70s, but has now endorsed the Administration's position. He was right the first time...
There were also what an economist friend of Goodman's calls "exogenous variables," unexpected occurrences that mess up neat computer models. During the '70s, for example, there was a big jump in the cost of grain after the Soviets had to buy in the U.S. to offset their own crop failure. Hamburgers went up too, when billions of fish that would have been ground up as cattle feed disappeared from the waters off Peru...