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...ordinary gesture to herald an extraordinary event. As a biting wind chilled the tarmac, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze walked down an airplane ramp, strode up to the man waiting to greet him and shook hands. His host was Qian Qichen, the Foreign Minister of China. After a long and bitter estrangement between the leviathans of the Communist world, Shevardnadze had come to Beijing to set a date for a meeting that would bring the two countries' leaders together for the first time in 30 years. Moscow and Beijing had reached the verge of something that eluded them even during...
Having learned the way of the Diplomat, the team then undiplomatically shook the Quakers' record, storming...
...King was successful because when Southerners "smote him--as they inevtiably must--they hurt them selves...In the end, it was the power of their own idealized vision of themselves as Christians, transcended into Blackness, personified in King and him, a seemingly loving and non-violent host, that shook them to the roots of self." But we are rarely shaken to such depths today...
...HAVEN, CONN.--Bill Cleary reached into the sea of blue jerseys and shook Mike O'Neill's hand...
...Boss's Video Anthology/1978-88 is due in stores Jan. 31. Springsteen's video is, in contrast to Jackson's, refreshingly modest and small-scale, as if he shook out the video scrapbook and passed along some souvenirs. Although approximately a third of the 100-min. tape is taken up with material from the 1987 Tunnel of Love album and tour, most of the gems date back a bit further. An early video of Rosalita, made a decade ago, has a real scruffy, low-tech charm. Springsteen quickly learned not only how to play to the camera but how to work...