Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They alternate between the local Soviet diplomatic mission and U.S. SALT headquarters, a nondescript modern office building originally built to house Playboy Financier Bernie Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Services before his empire collapsed in 1970. Even though Earle and Semyonov have known each other for five years, their relationship is strictly business. They address each other as "Mr. Ambassador" and "Mr. Minister," and Semyonov often speaks from notes or even prepared texts...
...that British firms could be involved in both the Airbus and one of the U.S. projects. If Britain were to opt for the U.S. deal, in angry Continental eyes that would compound the suspicion that deep down Britain is more interested in maintaining its mid-Atlantic "special relationship" with America than in being a true Common Market partner. Squabbling continued through the week not only about money and planes but also over a common fisheries policy for the E.C.; the British are threatening to veto the policy unless they are guaranteed the lion's share (60%) of the catch. Said...
...which Giovannetti says fact swerves most sharply into fiction is a budding romance between the Soviet colonel and a beautiful woman agent in an Israeli intelligence ring he has infiltrated. "I have been told that the Israeli girl is so well described that I must have had such a relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what Righi could...
Washington's reaction to last week's sell-off was ho hum, with officials arguing that it was not as bad as the confusion that gripped international money markets between October and April. Said one high U.S. economic policymaker: "The right yen-dollar relationship has never been found"; and he predicted that the dollar could go to 180 yen before Japanese exports would be adversely affected...
This intimacy means a ravenous consumption, rather than contemplation, of images. Szarkowski, an aesthete to the fingertips, will have none of it. His catalogue essay describes the decay of the relationship between serious photography and the dying picture magazines in the '60s, along with what he terms the growing realization among photographers that the camera's testimony about news was "opaque and superficial." He roundly states that "good photographers had long since known?whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear...