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Sounds and images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the mainstay of the rock videos on MTV, and their most innovative directors, like Russell Mulcahy, have graduated to feature films. Probably not in the past half-century have the works of the avant-garde achieved such wide currency among mainstream audiences...
...another. The dejection in the President's carriage as he walked out of Hofdi house, the disappointment etched into every line of Secretary of State George Shultz's face as he briefed the press, had flashed an unmistakable message to TV watchers around the world: the summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev had ended in failure. Worse, headlines were already spreading the impression that Reagan had thrown away the promise of a nuclear-free world by clinging to his vision of a space-based defense -- even if there might be no missiles to defend against...
Wiesel's 30 books have ranged from biblical studies to an examination of the plight of Soviet Jews. Indeed, last week he exhorted Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to allow five Soviet Jews, as well as Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, to emigrate, and this week he is traveling to Moscow to help organize a conference on non-Jewish victims of Nazism. Wiesel has also worked to help Cambodian refugees, the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and starving children in Africa...
...Ronald Reagan walk into a sting? Did Mikhail Gorbachev go to Reykjavik with a well-wrought plan designed to put the Soviets in a no-lose situation and the Americans in a no-win one? Or, perhaps, did Gorbachev get so caught up in the breakneck pace of the negotiations that he went further than he had planned...
...continued to up the ante. Now, as night closed in on Hofdi house, the "grand compromise" was in sight. But the whole startling package of proposals was hanging on the Soviet insistence that Star Wars research be confined to the laboratory. Ronald Reagan made a last-ditch appeal to Mikhail Gorbachev. He declared he had made a pledge to the American people not to trade away SDI. "Please," Reagan said, "don't ask me to do it." Impervious, the General Secretary replied, "Nyet...