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...involvement in Angola and get the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks moving again. At their first meeting, a jovial and healthy-looking Brezhnev declared: "The main subject is the achievement of a new SALT agreement." When an American reporter asked if Angola would also be discussed, Brezhnev replied with a shrug: "For me there is nothing to talk about on Angola. Angola isn't my country, after all." Kissinger interjected: "It will certainly be discussed." Said Brezhnev with a grin: "You discuss it with [State Department Counsellor Helmut] Sonnenfeldt...
...activity and reports have proved costly to Concrete. But the Forest Service insists that placing threatened areas off limits makes eminent sense. Mount Baker does not have to awaken fully and erupt in order to be deadly. All the restless giant need do to cause a disaster is to shrug off its snowy and earthen coverings...
Brayton (he pauses, savoring it, taking pleasure in the way he can lightly shrug and say, humbly): "I play baseball...
...plan of the book seems to represent a cynical reckoning on the reading public. It suggests that people will shrug off the question of an author's skill if their voyeuristic urges are satisfied. A less frenetic life probably wouldn't have been placed on a par with Lang's writing. Lurie's memoir leads you to Lang's work by way of a detour that impinges on her privacy unnecessarily. It is an approach Lang denounces in one of her verse-plays...
...Tenacity, to a large extent, created her career. "I was an early drop-out. I finished three years of college and then got married and spent the next ten years trying to finish school. And when I was almost finished, we'd move," Scarf says with a shrug that indicates she feels no regret. After this ten-year long attempt to finish school, Scarf turned to writing children's books because of what she saw as a need for some sort of personal fulfillment. "I sent chapters of a children's book I had written to Random House and they...