Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Southern scene crashes into a joyous celebration of gospel music. Three men in black run in different directions onto the stage against a flourescent red set. This section was undoubtedly one of the highest points of the entire performance. Each man's technique was perfect--they appeared to pose at the top of their jumps, and to complete remarkably difficult sequences of steps. Their speed was unmatched...
...ruling marked a big win for Harvard, which has held all along that emissions from the Brookline Ave, plant do not pose a severe public health threat. However, MATEP must finish up about three to six months of testing the engines before it can get its final operating permit from the state. Residents of neighboring Brookline and Mission Hill--who have been battling MATEP since 1975--say they will go to Superior Court once more to keep the diesels dead...
CENTRAL AMERICA. The Reagan Administration views the Sandinista government now running Nicaragua as a group of Soviet-allied Marxists, and fears that consolidation of the Sandinistas' hold on Nicaragua would pose a deadly danger of leftist revolution spreading not only to neighboring Central American countries but eventually even to Mexico. Washington's strategy to prevent that has been to sponsor the anti-Sandinista contras, with the avowed aim of putting pressure on the Sandinistas to stop exporting revolution. U.S. diplomats claim some success. Asserts one: "This (Sandinista) government is in trouble. It has gone 180 degrees from preaching 'revolution without...
...continue their efforts to bring about a negotiated withdrawal." Privately, an Administration official remarked that "we understand (Israel's) impatience, but we don't think this is the way to go about it." The Reagan Administration would prefer to see Israel quickly negotiate a satisfactory diplomatic solution that would pose fewer risks for the Gemayel government...
Certainly the statesmanlike attitude both sides showed in Geneva will be difficult to sustain over the many months--quite likely years--that remain before a substantive agreement can be negotiated. But the compulsion to strike a pose of reasonableness at least served to get things started...