Word: pacts
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...heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry out a joint suicide pact at their London residence...
...sure, whenever the grave and lovely Rae Dawn Chong appears as Sarah, the young black woman Mark falls in love with, this pact is broken. But she cannot overcome the cliches of mistaken-identity comedy that were stylized when Plautus was a pup. Or enliven the film's sermon that even in enlightened environments like Harvard, racial stereotyping and unconscious prejudice still exist. The approach is too comfortable, the tone patronizing. The N.A.A.C.P. has greeted Soul Man with protests; one suspects it is not so much because the movie's heart is in the wrong place, but because its heart...
...Dagliesh guesses, and as any astute mystery fan knows, appearances can be dangerously deceiving. Why would two men of such disparate social classes as Berowne and Mack join together in a suicide pact? Why had someone just weeks earlier sent Berowne a poison pen letter intimating his involvement in the deaths of his first wife, his mother's nurse and the family housekeeper...
...former British colony in the South Pacific. Since then, much has happened to heighten Washington's jitters. Last June, Vanuatu, formerly the British-French territory of New Hebrides, opened diplomatic relations with Moscow, following the lead of Fiji and three other Pacific island states. Vanuatu is currently negotiating a pact with the Soviets that would include, in addition to fishing licenses, port and landing rights...
...from academic. If ballistic missiles were eliminated, the U.S. would still retain long-range bombers and cruise missiles that could deliver nuclear blows to the Soviet Union. If all strategic nukes disappeared, the U.S. would lose its long-standing deterrent to Soviet power in Europe, where the Warsaw Pact's conventional forces outnumber NATO...