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After four years of summit meetings held under the lengthening shadow of potential failure, the ten leaders of the European Community blundered last week into a diplomatic debacle they long had feared. At the end of three days of alternately listless and acrimonious negotiations in Athens, they found themselves unable to announce agreement on a single item of their long agenda. The key obstacle: the threat of bankruptcy for the Community unless there is an increase in member contributions to its common budget ($22.5 billion in 1983) or a scaleback in an expensive ($14.3 billion this year) agricultural subsidy policy...
That kind of finesse from a man not given to small talk or wordplay was seen by some of his aides as symbolic of Shamir's growing self-confidence since stepping out from Begin's shadow and into Israel's most demanding office just eight weeks ago. "He behaved like a real Prime Minister," said a top Israeli general who had observed Shamir throughout the Washington negotiations. "He was to the point, all businesslike, and ready to listen. He surprised me." That, in fact, was one of Shamir's aims in visiting Washington. Explained...
Bernstein explains her "disdain toward journalism" as "shadow-boxing with my inclinations." "I actually had to fight wanting to be a reporter since I was drawn to journalism all through growing up," says Bernstein...
...opera audiences got used to an intimidating degree of abstraction in sets and costumes-sweeping bare stages with a significant prop or two, or else labyrinths of neo-Bayreuth gloom where spotlights jabbed accusatory fingers through banks of theatrical fog. This design orthodoxy, based on texture, shadow, "sublime" cavelike space, was a necessary reaction against older conventions of the painted background: the unenchanted tempera forest with every stale leaf in place. But it left out color, and the main reason for Hockney's success onstage was that he was able, with dazzling virtuosity and conviction, to put color back...
Last year, a recession economy cast a shadow of gloom over the Christmas market. But economists are predicting a nationwide increase in gift spending this year, and the current holiday season may prove even more profitable than usual...