Word: posing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After so many years of living uneasily together, the Palestinians and the Lebanese have discovered that their fates have become deeply intertwined. However expertly the evacuation of the P.L.O. fighting force is handled, its removal from the scene will pose dangers to at least one of the Lebanese communities, the Muslims, as well as to the Palestinians who are left behind. Untying this knot, without undue risk to the parties concerned, is perhaps the trickiest part of the task that still confronts the negotiators on the hill above Beirut. ?By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William...
...prices, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have garnered prodigious growth and captured hefty shares of the world markets for autos, steel, shipbuilding, electronics and clothing. Nonetheless, sluggish growth in the West has started to cut into the demand for Asian exports. Moreover, tightening trade restrictions pose a threat to Asian economies. Japan, for example, had to curb its car exports to the U.S. and several European countries, after having been threatened with quotas...
...Greco had his failures. He never could get his angels to float properly. When doing a portrait, he contrived a pose that suited his view; if hands diverted attention from face, he would magisterially scumble them over, obliterating the knuckles without any sense of embarrassment. He might pair two saints (St. Andrew and St. Francis) who lived centuries apart, and for background, arbitrarily use a part of Toledo...
...leaders 1) to accept the proposition that the strategic balance is heavily in favor of the U.S.S.R. and 2) to accept the corollary that reductions, particularly in ICBMs, must be in favor of the U.S. In Reagan's view, ICBMs are "the most destabilizing" weapons, since they alone pose the threat of a preemptive attack; bombers and cruise missiles are too slow flying, and submarine-launched missiles insufficiently accurate, to be anything but retaliatory. Says Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "There is no harm in asking for unequal reductions that achieve an equal level...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last...