Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm, quiet, and comfortable in the curved acrylic bed. A self-contained fan system swirls cool air around your tingling epidermis as your head and feet rest on soft pillows. Goggles make it safe for your eyes. You can listen to music, sleep or just let your thoughts wander, secure in the knowledge that double timer systems will turn the lights off automatically...
Strange and repellent and seductive -- a world of power plays in which everybody's somebody's victim. Sandy is attracted to Jeffrey's quiet intensity. Jeffrey is beguiled by Dorothy's mystery, her dangerous demands. To keep her family alive, Dorothy must surrender to Frank's depraved games. But even Frank is in the thrall of Ben (Dean Stockwell), an epicene drug dealer, who in turn is subject to the political power of a heavyset enigma in a yellow jacket. On that stroll in the woods, Jeffrey fell down the rabbit hole and found an inverted pyramid of moral monstrosity...
...agreeable side: on Saturday the Soviets announced they were allowing five well-known dissidents to emigrate, a positive gesture on the eve of the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting. Initially, the Administration tried to play the whole affair in a very low key, saying little while trying to engage Moscow in quiet negotiations. The President said nothing openly until last Monday, when he warned that continued imprisonment of the reporter could seriously damage U.S.-Soviet relations. Four days earlier Reagan, relying as always on his powers of persuasion, had sent Gorbachev a personal letter assuring the Soviet leader that Daniloff...
...seems exploitative. In a bravura opening, a wild chase ends with a shoot-out at the house of an anonymous family. After the carnage is over, Torello notices a pair of children peering curiously from inside a bedroom. He walks over to them and ends the scene with a quiet punctuation mark, "Get down from the window." Cop shows may not have changed much after all, but they do not get any better than this...
...Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage the U.S.S.R. in quiet diplomacy. In March 1985 a Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed Major Arthur Nicholson, a member of a U.S. military liaison unit, and hawks in the Administration clamored for retaliation...