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...Rowny-Karpov talks is quite another. Both literally and figuratively, Reagan has changed the name of the game. He has rechristened the negotiations START, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, as a somewhat artificial way to distinguish his Administration's goals from those of its predecessor. The Soviets profess to share the desire for reductions; they have even added the word to the Russian designation of the talks ("Our first concession," says Zamyatin with a wry smile). But they object strenuously to the sorts of reductions that the U.S. wants...
...down the arms race but result in actual and significant reductions in both nuclear weaponry and conventional forces. Both sides recognize that these are maximum opening positions. The questions are: How negotiable are the U.S. suggestions, and will the Soviets reply to them seriously? So far, White House aides profess optimism. Says one: "At least they haven't rejected our proposals out of hand...
...singing and much mugging in four performances of Orpheus at the Opera Company of Boston. The idea was cooked up by Director Sarah Caldwell, 58, who joined her featured players for a bit of balloonfoolery during rehearsals. Though opera was regularly and hilariously parodied by Caesar and Coca, both profess to find the real thing "kind of scary," in Caesar's words. But not serious. "Wagner is serious. This is not serious...
...inherently racist or sexist, though some students disagree, but I am certain that the homogeneous nature of many of the Houses, and perhaps Harvard as a whole, insulates most students--and the Faculty and administration--from the diversity and open-mindedness which the University so articulately continues to profess...
...frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered young Horman. Indeed, the movie goes so far as to suggest that an American official might have cosigned Horman's execution order. Nathaniel Davis, who was U.S. Ambassador to Chile at the time...