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...business. But Self, first encountered drunk and disorderly in a New York City cab, is branching out into American moviemaking. This is a realm of invisible money, transparent friendship and deals as insubstantial as holograms. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, he is called Slick by people with names like Nub Forkner, Herrick Shnexnayder and Fielding Goodney, who communicates in the language of Upper Vulgaria: "Date-raped, Slick. Out on a date, you know? Remember. In fact it's an interesting distinction. With a regular rape, lust plays no part in it. It's all about power, self-assertion, violence...
...fact, the nub of the talk between the two camps has less to do with strategy than with wings: Jackson wants his own airplane during the campaign. The candidate's relations with blacks were further jolted when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, upset by the Mondale staffs resistance to outside advice, said the campaign was run by "smartass white boys who think they know...
...prepared to sacrifice the Pershing II and deploy only cruise missiles in exchange for dramatic reductions in the European SS-20 force and other Soviet concessions (including an end to Soviet insistence on limiting British and French nuclear forces under an agreement). That was the nub of the now famous walk-in-the-woods formula that chief INF Negotiator Paul Nitze worked out privately with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky, a year ago. Both men were overruled by their home offices on the grounds that they had given away too much. The Reagan Administration felt it could not live without...
Everyone from conservative William F. Buckley to the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the emphasis must instead be shifted to what is singular about prisons, the irreplaceable nub. It is imprisonment alone that can keep predators off the streets, and that result is what the U.S. must begin chiefly seeking for its $4.5 billion a year...
Yergin, co-author of the 1979 bestseller Energy Future and contributor of two of the twelve essays in this volume, warns that a devastating energy crisis could erupt at any time. He writes: "That, in a nub, is the problem for the United States and the entire industrial world, and is why we have undertaken this study." Yer gin fears that the current small glut in perils supplies will lull industrialized countries into the type of complacency that leads U.S. auto buyers to want to rush back to big cars as soon as gas prices seem to abate...