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...news. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing not just Reagan's positions but his techniques for putting them across. The Kremlin has shown a new adroitness in presenting its case abroad. Reagan and Gorbachev have spent the summer in graceful minuet, each moving a step forward or backward, finding + some movement, or none at all, in the other's proposals, alternately expressing doubts or confidence that a summit is possible. To a Western Europe highly concerned about the nuclear race, the Soviets have seemed more genuinely interested in, or in need of, an agreement...
Colwin's prevailing theory--that love is at best a paradox--leads her to a symmetry as incongruously formal as a minuet played backward. Frank and his wife are perfectly partnered in their taste for English cars, Early American sideboards, houses in the South of France and dressy parties. Billy and her husband are a matching pair in their indifference to all of the above. It is the adulterers who are incompatible, an irony at once deliciously comic and far too tidy. When the lovers finally sneak off to an idyllic week in a Vermont cottage, subsisting on passion...
...early as age two. By comparing skin cells from victims with those of healthy people, the two scientists traced the problem to an absence or deficiency of LDL receptors, proteins that stud the outer membranes of most cells, particularly those of the liver. Then they decoded the complex minuet that takes place between the receptor and its LDL particle. Says Baltimore: "That was important for understanding how cells communicate with their environment...
...Mean to Me sounds as if it is being purred on a rumpled-up bed by a woman who has missed an entire night's sleep and is still bright-eyed. When I Fall in Love is both heartsore and heartfelt, Falling in Love Again a music-box minuet that turns into a full-swing romp, and the classic Billy Strayhorn title cut a cocktail lounge elegy of elegant despair. Barroom or bedroom, Lush Life is right at home...
...house lights dim, wind chimes fill the night, and a lady appears at her cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away...