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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond the modest get-acquainted session he originally envisioned. He dangled that possibility in his televised speech. While stressing that the meeting "will not be a time for detailed arms-control negotiations" and that "there will be no surprises sprung on our allies," Bush also declared that "we will miss no opportunity to expand freedom and enhance the peace." The Soviets too were sounding optimistic. "I know the mood of the General Secretary, and I can forecast that it is going to be a very interesting and very useful meeting," said Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
Amid all these messes, she made some memorable movies, including Gilda and Miss Sadie Thompson. But the final years were awful. She abandoned her last film role in 1972. Eight years later, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease, and Yasmin cared for her until her death in 1987. Leaming's prose can gush ("the incomparable Hermes Pan," "the fabulous Eartha Kitt") and regularly descends to write-by-the-numbers cliche. But the material is poignant, another reminder of the chasm that can exist between public images and private pain...
...Arthur Rosenthal made Harvard the flagship University Press in the U.S.," said Aida D. Donald, editor-in-chief of the Harvard University Press. "We will miss him tremendously, but he leaves us very strong, and, like him, we have great faith in the future of the Press...
Tutu did, in fact, miss the first Board meeting in October. Just last month, he said in a letter that he would be unable to visit the United States at all this year, according to Whitehead...
FIFTY YEARS OF TELEVISION: A GOLDEN CELEBRATION (CBS, Nov. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Stop us before we kill: yet another survey of "classic moments" from TV's past. Hosts include Walter Cronkite, Carl Reiner and Miss Piggy...