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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This month the FSX's proponents at the State and Defense departments, who see the deal as an economic and strategic boon for the U.S., argued heatedly with critics who wanted to scrap the plan. Finally last week, President Bush called an unusual National Security Council meeting to thrash out the issues. In the end, he decided on a compromise: to go through with the deal but to apply safeguards that will prevent Japanese contractors from getting access to the most important technology. According to presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Bush has yet to decide on "at least three or four...
...little too close to a role model, catch him at the backstage entrance, and the loss can be desolating. Admiration is itself a form of suspended disbelief; turning a blind eye can be as much an act of forgiveness as turning the other cheek. We cannot afford to see our heroes at too close a distance -- not least because we have so few heroes to spare...
...South African linocut artist John Muafangejo shows Satan urinating in fear before an angel. Sometimes even modest experiments produce scandal. Cheap reproductions hang beneath the Stations of the Cross carved by Kanutu Chenge for a Catholic church near Lubumbashi, Zaire. They are there to appease a congregation shocked to see Pilate dressed as an African chieftain and women with tribal headbands witnessing the Crucifixion...
...Theater people. And I don't mean actors, directors or producers. They're fine. I mean theater people, people who can't see beyond the pages of Sam Shepard or Pirandello and act as if a single production can change the world and tend to get bogged down in the so-called creative process and go on and on about "motivation" and being "in character" and all that other jargony stuff...
...only controversial play was when Mourning blocked Bob Scrabis at the top of the key. Scrabis thought he was fouled, but the referees didn't see it that...