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...proclaiming that his goal would be significant reductions rather than merely limits on nuclear weapons, as his predecessors had attempted through the SALT process. (Carter had proposed the same idea in 1977, but backed away when the Soviets balked.) Moscow walked out on the negotiations in late 1983 in reaction to the U.S. deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, but spurred by the desire to prevent Reagan from proceeding with his Strategic Defense Initiative, it returned to Geneva early last year to open a new round of negotiations...
...rally seemed a delayed reaction to the declining value of the dollar, down more than 20% since last February. Investors may also have bought bullion out of fear that hostilities might break out between Libya...
...most consistently evokes is Mazursky's own Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, also a nervously ambiguous but hilariously etched caricature of the bourgeois at self-improving play. In his desire to back away pleasantly from some of his tale's more critical implications, he relies too much on reaction shots of Matisse for easy, innocent laughs. Well, Disney did produce the film (its first with an R rating), and on the basically farcical level where it chooses to stay, it is a funny and likable movie. --By Richard Schickel...
...student body's reaction was predominantly blasé at Brown, a progressive liberal-arts bastion to which high schoolers seek admission more avidly than to virtually any other U.S. college (ten applications for each 1985 enrollment). Senior David Margulius called the situation "bizarre, but somehow not surprising. Brown students are always doing offbeat, experimental things. And they are pretty uninhibited in a lot of ways." Freshman Carol Putsel, 18, was even more matter-of-fact: "Just because it's a college campus doesn't mean that it's free of social problems...
...audiences, who sometimes show an ornery independence from critics, apparently disagreed. In nearly 17 years, the show has been performed more than 15,000 times in 15 countries, and it has titillated, shocked and outraged roughly 86 million people. "There is always some reaction to Oh! Calcutta!," says Norman Kean, its producer and promoter. "Its message is theatricality--outrageous theatricality--which goes beyond the twilight zone into a territory that had never been explored onstage before...