Word: interpretational
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...Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, warned the President once again that the proposed savings would be insufficient. Reagan replied that since arms-control negotiations with the Soviets may be about to resume, this would be a most inappropriate time to send Moscow anything it might interpret as a signal of U.S. softness. Weinberger made essentially the same point in public the next day. Said he: "You can't decide what you're going to have to spend for defense without looking outside the United States." The military forces, he added, still have "a long...
...theatrical community was all prepared to take the stand to defend the rights of directors and producers to freely interpret a playwright's work. But fans of massive. First Amendment bloodfests were disappointed when Beckett's agents settled out-of-court for little more than a statement in the "Endgame" program...
...protecting their "sources and methods" as well as catching the crooks. The CIA is anxious that the Pentagon hardliners, in their zeal to prosecute the Soviets in public, will give away sensitive intelligence secrets about how much the U.S. knows and how it knows it. Some intelligence experts also interpret the data about Soviet activities as being more ambiguous than the hard-liners want to assert...
...leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...
...sturdy political walking stick that can be called into service whenever the road gets rough in the next four years. Yet given the electorate's tepid reception of Reagan clones mouthing the President's line--Bay State businessman Rax Shamie comes quickly to mind--it would be dishonest to interpret the Reagan win as a green flag for the radical right...