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...with the dead eyes he had during our conversation, and said, "High enough." I said, "I understand. But I've written the truth and Yakovlev is lying." He went on, "I checked a few things." We both fell silent. Then I got up to leave, and I wanted to shake his hand. He came out from behind his desk, prosthesis creaking, with my file in his hands. I extended my hand, he extended my file, then understood my gesture and shook my hand. "Would you like me to hold onto your file? I'll put it in my safe. Maybe...
...President is always saying that he wants a meeting," Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told a group of Soviet farmers last month. "To shake hands with each other, to chat. But we did this in Geneva . . . It's necessary not only to talk, but to agree . . . Why meet again in order just to talk...
...working out agreements. Though he included the usual accusations against the U.S., he implied exasperation with his own bureaucracy as well as Reagan's. Says a U.S. official: "All at one time, Gorbachev was wringing his hands, pounding his fist and holding out his hand for the President to shake...
...once remarked that "photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops -- for a split second." But between 1981 and 1983 Hockney scarcely touched a paintbrush; irked by painter's block, he turned to photography to shake it loose, first with a Polaroid SX-70 and then with various popular automatic 35- mm cameras. He would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees...
Despite the ample causes for concern, chances are good that the economy will shake its slump and gather new momentum. That was the consensus of the TIME Board of Economists, which met in New York City this month to discuss the outlook. The economists forecast that GNP growth, after adjustment for inflation, will accelerate from an annual rate of .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the last half of the year. For 1987 they predict a sturdy, if not spectacular, 3% growth rate. Said Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor who was chairman of the Council...