Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by exercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "And I seem to be thriving...
Such measures may seem rather drastic retaliation for trials that the Soviets regard as quite within their rights. But the trials are only a symptom of a deterioration that has been going on almost from the day Carter took office-and even before. The wary cooperation between the superpowers, which was the keystone of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy and was widely labeled (somewhat to their dismay) detente, reached its peak with the balmy summit meetings of Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 and 1973. But detente was never a condition totally free of East-West...
Laments Edward Hackett of the University of Maine at Orono: "We used to have a good number of summer programs in foreign countries, but they all became too expensive." But nine students from Evergreen State College in Washington seem to have found a way to have their foreign course without the high cost. They are traveling through France, Italy and England this summer studying medieval monuments-and saving money by sleeping in campgrounds and cooking their own meals. Estimated tab for two months including airfare...
...Administration official concedes that the White House does not have real links or leverage with labor. Says he: "We have much better lines to businessmen. They seem more willing to talk and to act, up to a certain point. Labor is more suspicious and thinks that we're antilabor. We're trying to improve our ties to labor, but we're not doing too well...
...Beatty seems to have become the perpetual adolescent of the film industry--the Mick Jagger of the silver screen. His adamant refusal to grow up and be serious is admittedly rather charmingly contagious and his ebullient, almost Byronic self-absorption displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women...