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...Europe continued to fear that the U.S. might leave it in the lurch. The worry even has a term in the NATO strategic lexicon: decoupling. Europe's anxieties grew in 1977 when the Carter Administration began the SALT II negotiations with Moscow. The resulting pact did not cover the SS-20 missiles. To counter these weapons, President Carter proposed stationing a new generation of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Europe, while proceeding with arms limitation talks. The offer was readily accepted by the Europeans, including West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. That acceptance has come home to roost...
...flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak leadership in 1968 just before Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague...
Alexander Haig is conducting a terrorist campaign of his own-against the English language. His war of words with the Kremlin has turned into a war on words, presumably much to the consternation of Russian translators. Herewith a lexicon of Haigisms...
...Lemmon should know, movies are different. What looks like a character's final tribute from a theater balcony be comes, in movie closeup, an autopsy. And Lemmon, by re-creating his stage performance, has created another, more pitiable Scottie. Lemmon still articulates a lexicon of frayed hopes through his sad-clown face, still works the crowd like an aging but adept masseur. But this Scottie is no longer a man one would care to spend an evening drinking with, or even observing. He chokes on his own gag lines; he straitjackets his son (Robby Benson) in a slapstick embrace...
Recuperation is slow and recovery elusive. Further heart problems bring Lear back to the hospital, this time for bypass surgery. After the operation, he suffers the most dreadful euphemism in the doctors' lexicon: "Complications." Rudeness and evasion become the order of the day, and a fatal demoralization sets in. "The patient," Martha Lear notes, "had been blamed for his illness, had been handed back his questions, unopened, and had been left feeling rejected, abandoned ... This is classic in long chronic disease; this is what the failures of the body do unerringly to the soul...