Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triangle has pyramid-like endurance, persisting for some 40 years. In the best of circumstances, it would strain credulity; with Molly played by dull, spunkless Blythe Danner, its strength is incomprehensible. Although she is a sweet enough young thing, even in the early going she suggests no mysterious depths of feeling, intelligence or sexuality that would require more than 40 minutes to plumb. As she ages-and life plays its usual mean tricks on the three of them-she seems a pleasant, easy kind of woman but not the focal point around which three lives are built...
This conflict moves the play, particularly when every joint of Guckenheimer's structure is riveted by the performance of Douglas Hughes. When Hughes's fiery, adolescent Andri is forced into the dilemma of conformity or rebellion, the strain grinds him into a slow, crumpling burn; rubbing palms on trousers as if to ease the searing; stretching fingers behind his back to find air he's not sure he's entitled to. A tight stickfigure of nervousness, he moves like he's in an invisible bag. So his courage lashes out like electricity, for he can never breathe enough to show...
...informal occasion, Kissinger wore a dark blue suit and bright tie while Nancy was in a gold-flecked beige knit dress and matching coat. Showing no signs of strain after the rigors of his Moscow visit (see THE WORLD), the bridegroom beamed as Skowcroft offered a simple toast with Korbel (California) champagne: "Health and happiness to both of you!" Then, accompanied by their families, the couple drove to Arlington for the four-minute ceremony and were whisked to National Airport, where Nelson Rockefeller's jet was waiting to fly them to Acapulco for a ten-day honeymoon...
Although Americans are particularly chastened by their spiraling inflation, having so long considered themselves immune from it, what is happening in the U.S. is only one manifestation of a larger, more virulent strain of worldwide inflation. Like some medieval plague, inflation today is sweeping across national borders to infect almost every country at the same time. And the consequences of the international spiral go far beyond economics: they include a sharpening of social divisions and a shaking of values, as inflation rewards speculators while penalizing thrift. The ultimate threat is that inflation will eventually weaken confidence in democratic governments...
...expressed high hopes that they would also agree to pump oil again at the rates reached before the Arab-Israeli war broke out last October (production has since been cut 15% below that level). If so, the U.S. could expect a marked easing within a few months of the strain on its fuel supplies, especially gasoline, though prices will decline slowly-if at all-and conservation measures would still be needed...