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Other plans to dismantle the long nuclear standoff are moving ahead smartly. U.S. intelligence officials anticipate a major breakthrough in arms-control verification by spring. Until now, spy satellites have provided the best way to peek at what the other side is doing. Gorbachev quipped that U.S. military satellites could read the license plates on Moscow cars. But bad weather can block the view from space: airplanes would be better. Members of NATO and the former WARSAW PACT countries are close to an unprecedented agreement to permit regular verification flights over one another's territory. Come in, O'Hare! Requesting...
...Private Ear gives the audience a peek at the darker, more complex side of relationships, thanks to some custom-crafted performances by the main characters and a short but sharp plot...
...think that our books have influenced the understanding of people outside South Africa. This can't be done in daily newscasts. There you get the peek, you get the riots, you get the extreme situation. And then the TV turns to the next event. Whereas the fiction writer invents, from his or her own observation, the experience that led up to that moment of crisis and, then, what's going to happen to these people afterward. That's what fiction deals with: how people's lives are affected permanently...
When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided- missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report, Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched an investigation...
...wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds. The films, based on stage plays, are a bit more careful, more artful, than Pryor's but just as worthy. And just as funny...