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...that time, the U.S. had adopted the doctrine of "flexible response," with the aim of first meeting a Soviet attack with conventional weapons and escalating to tactical and then strategic nuclear weaponry if necessary. The Germans, still worried about U.S. resolve, prevailed upon Washington to accept the doctrine of "seamless deterrence." This obligated the U.S. to move on quickly and smoothly to the use of nuclear weapons if need be. In 1974 the U.S. again tried to satisfy European insecurities by promising that it would keep 300,000 troops and 7,000 nuclear weapons on the Continent...
HOME-GROWN, low-budget filmmakers rarely create seamless art--work which reveals talent within the limits of a small budget. Anna Thomas, the producer-director-writer of The Haunting of M sets out to prove that a stylish ghost story can be produced inexpensively. Although her attempt does not really succeed, Thomas displays considerable promise within the limits of her failure...
...supply side" hard-liners view the Reagan program as a seamless whole that cannot be substantially altered without its effectiveness being ruined. As they see it, only Reagan's across-the-board tax cuts, and the assurance that they will continue into the future, will give all sectors of the population the incentive to work, save and invest. Says Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts: "You simply don't generate sufficient long-term confidence with any one-year plan. What you're saying is that you don't really believe in cutting taxes...
...posters, invariably the squalid cubicle provides graphic regurgitative evidence of excessive drinking the previous night and hosts a snoring half-dressed lout who obviously never has come within 75 feet of a naked woman. Houde plays Guy with impeccable control. He neither exaggerates nor lapses and shapes a seamless characterization...
...technical virtuosity McKellen displayed in that restaurant and even more to an analytic actor's intelligence that is restless and ruth less at once. "If I couldn't defend a performance intellectually, I'd be very un happy indeed," McKellen remarks, and his Salieri is a seamless reconciliation of paradox. It is a portrait in depth of a shallow man, a forgotten 18th century court composer so bedeviled by jealousy, the shock of his own mediocrity and the daunting genius of his principal rival that he encouraged Mozart's ruination and hastened his death. Full...