Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and, yes, TIME. Is there, then, anti-American bias in a large segment of the American press? Or are the German media being asked to confine their criticism to their own affairs and those of the Soviet bloc? I see no such noble restraint in dealing with West Germany's imperfections on the part of most U.S. newspapers and magazines...
...Generally, Mulroney favors increased defense expenditures, incentives to businessmen and investors, and the maintenance of major social programs. But he is also committed to a balanced federal budget and reduced government spending. He has yet to explain how he intends to reconcile these contradictory objectives. "Certainly there will be restraint, but spending cuts will be fairly modest," he says. "We are not Britain...
...school of acting. Although he is not helped by dialogue that circles repetitively over the same terrain, his shrieking and spluttering become dull and annoying; he turns a simple character into a simple-minded one. By contrast, Gleason, the king of comedic excess, is a model of restraint as the spiffy Mr. Johnson. The two men's budding fondness for each other feels forced...
...resuming consular negotiations and sending a delegation off to Moscow to negotiate "confidence-building measures," like upgrading the hot line. The two countries have agreed on a major sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. The State Department is musing about how to engage the Soviets in mutual restraint and perhaps even joint diplomatic initiatives in the Third World, particularly southern Africa. Both leaderships recognize that unremitting hostility is wasteful and dangerous. Yuri Andropov's Politburo is trying to figure out what to do about social and economic stagnation; it is preoccupied with the pacification of Poland...
...this latter-day Rip Van Winkle strangely touching; anyone struggling to adapt to the technologies of the 1980s is bound to admire his good-humored patience with the ways of the world he nev er made. Director Phillip Borsos has an unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean for ward in order to catch all their...