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Marchais's challenge came at an awkward moment for Mitterrand, who had traveled to a forest retreat in Alsace to discuss the Geneva negotiations with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The French President refused to be drawn further into the debate, noting only that he and Kohl had "breathed the fresh air; looked at the trees, the flowers and the sky; and talked a lot." But there was no getting around the fact that the missile disagreement was putting strains on the leftist coalition...
Sabi suggests patina or decomposition: the retreat of bright new substance into a world of obscurity and hints. It is what a cypress doorframe acquires after three centuries of sliding the shoji back and forth. It is what Japanese collectors got when they left their silverware to tarnish, instead of polishing it to a bright Tiffany glitter. Wabi is an older and wider concept. It conveys not the dryness and stillness of sabi, but an aristocratic use of "poor," rustic materials. Tea is the origin of much of Japanese design since the 15th century; in fact, the nearest thing...
...marathon secret negotiations started in April with a visit by Alleghany Corp. Chairman Fred Kirby II to American Express at the invitation of Chairman James Robinson 3rd and President Sanford Weill. The talks progressed into July and were partly conducted by radio telephone between Kirby's isolated summer retreat in the Adirondacks and American Express headquarters in Manhattan. At one point, Kirby used a pay phone in a country hotel to call Weill, who told the Alleghany boss he was not "going to negotiate a billion-dollar deal on the telephone." Thus the executives met face-to-face...
...there then any hope of victory in the age-old battle against mosquitoes? Probably not, most scientists agree. If the biting really gets bad, the only recourse is to retreat, swatter in hand behind a fine-meshed screen door...
...were in some way responsible for their predicament. The encampment had come under direct attack only three days before in an eleven-hour shelling siege, and Zero Three announced that two battalions of perhaps 1,500 Nicaraguan troops still surrounded them on three sides, leaving open only the mountainous retreat into Honduras. "This place is now dangerous," he said. "They have helicopters, mortars and troops. It's only a question of when they hit us again." Commander "Max," who was supposed to have met us, was somewhere in the field "fighting with the guerrillas." When we asked...