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...American lake. From naval bases in the Aleutian Islands and southward to Subic Bay in the Philippines, 107 U.S. warships and 51 submarines project commanding seapower. Ashore, mostly in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, 120,000 American troops are poised to deter aggression along the Pacific's western rim. Now, with the Soviet threat waning under the U.S.S.R.'s economic and ideological decay, is that U.S. military presence still necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ripples in The American Lake | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...twelve-member orchestra, conducted by Matthew Tap, is exceptionally strong, and provides energy to some otherwise dull musical numbers. Occassional orchestral interjections, rim-shots for bad jokes and a hilarious interplay between trumpeter Roy Groth and emcee Schaffer on the "lip-sync trumpet," add nice color to the performance...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

...Things funny in 1933 are not as funny today. We've added things like rim-shots for the audience to make it funny when the audience and the actor both realize that a joke is not funny," said Susan J. Levine '90, who plays the lead role of Evangeline...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Production Fraught With Difficulties | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

...beginning of the game was a culmination of everything that's gone wrong in our first four games," Greenberg said. "We get the rebound, we're staring at the rim and we miss and miss and miss. We couldn't get the ball to drop...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Cagers Cannot Handle Miner, 49ers | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

...security commitments outside Europe. If the Soviets will finally pack up and pull out of their air and naval bases in Viet Nam, why shouldn't the U.S. vacate its facilities in the Philippines? One objection is that the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim want a permanent, visible American military presence in that region as a counterbalance to China and Japan. That is a bit like suggesting, as many are suddenly doing, that now more than ever the world needs NATO -- and the Warsaw Pact -- to fend off the specter of German reunification and remilitarization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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