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...about the Soviets' supposed across-the-board "margin of superiority," the U.S. and the Soviet Union are in a relationship variously described as parity, rough equivalence, or "offsetting asymmetries." The Soviets are ahead in some categories, while the U.S. is ahead in others. But parity is not a static condition; it is dynamic. It is subject to shifting trends in areas that on the Soviet side could not, and on the American side should not, be frozen...
...possible. Hardly any Smith is more than ten feet high or wide. All the work responds willingly to nature. The stainless-steel planes of the Cubis, scribbled with stuttery, glittering lines by the rapid "drawing" of a power grinder, respond better to sunlight or starshine than to the static lighting of a museum. The high color and splashy textures with which he sometimes painted the steel were certainly meant to be seen against the colors of tree, snow or autumn grass...
Superficiality pervades the entire movie--especially because the array of relatives constitute a full spectrum of lifeless duds. Set in the early '60s, these characters are static period pieces; they seem lost in dated material, as if their horn-rimmed glasses had fogged their view of reality...
...single human relationship in this world is as important as that between the President of the United States and the man who leads the Soviet Union. They grope for an understanding of each other through 4,800 miles of political static, at once drawn together by necessity and fascination and held apart by cultural suspicion and government bureaucracy. Their personalities become summaries of nations too vast and complex to understand in the whole...
...minutes before I had planned to awake. To make matters worse, my roommate also likes to start the day with a burst of WEEI news radio. I have come to hate those monotonous traffic reports and the incessant simulated clacking of typewriters in the background. Tuesday morning, though the static aired an advertisement so intriguing that I cut through my early morning fog long enough to listen...