Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only libertarians or, shall we say, democratic-socialists of the old mode who now remain in Britain are the likes of Tony Benn and Michael Foot and the radical democratic Labor Party. Only democratic socialism can save Britain from Maggie Thatcher's ruinous corporate socialism...
...fact, if one disregards all the obliquities and subtle strategies of presentation, Port Tropique reveals itself as essentially a novel of the basic high-tension, high-adventure mode, not really much different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money...
...effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile-basing mode. The system is hugely expensive (possibly as much as $100 billion) and terribly destructive of both the natural and social environment in which it would exist. More troublesome still are its military ramifications. If the U.S. goes ahead with a mobile MX, the Soviets may try to disguise the location of their...
...song, of course, is "When you wore a tulip," in the standard '40s boy-meets-girl mode. So it goes, the five-part harmonies and do-wahs piercing the night air with a jovial and slightly condescending good humour...
Your stories on Ronald Reagan give one a new insight on the man and particularly his mode of recharging. No one need ever worry about the inner calm of a man who cherishes such a retreat for himself. But why did Mayor Koch appear in PEOPLE astride the camel with Reagan's living-room...