Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, U.S. policy on Iran was in a state of utter perplexity. One measure of how sensitive the situation was: neither Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, en route to the Middle East, nor most other high-level Administration officials wanted to say anything at all on the subject-on or off the record. Over the past few months, the U.S. has offered a variety of suggestions to the Shah, all designed to encourage him to press on with his liberalization campaign. For the long term, the Administration tends to favor the idea of a transition to constitutional monarchy in Iran...
...Party "considers Moscow his friend, benefactor and protector," as a senior State Department official puts it. Indeed, the pro-Soviet tilt of the new rulers in Kabul, the Afghan capital, is already stirring some recriminations in Washington. U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, an ardent hawk on the subject of Soviet expansionism, growled to a U.S. diplomat visiting from Kabul this summer: "You lost Afghanistan." Yet while Taraki has steered his country out of its traditional nonaligned path, he has leavened his pro-Moscow rhetoric with occasional mentions of a desire to maintain ties with the U.S., which continues to provide...
...subject still a worthwhile one for theologians...
...Dance, Art and Ritual of Africa by Michel Huet. Text by Jean-Louis Paudrat. (Pantheon; 241 pages; $35). The dancing black African in mask and full feather has become an anthropological cliche, reproduced tirelessly in lavish gift books. French Photographer Michel Huet triumphantly reclaims the subject in these 261 photographs taken during the past 30 years. Focusing on the tribes of the vast sub-Sahara, Muet has assembled a vivid and invaluable record of African costumes, rituals and artistic traditions that are fading before the winds and transistors of change. In the Gallic manner, both text and pictures are presented...
...smile usually breaks from one side to the other. What is more, each side seems to express a different feeling. This phenomenon can best be shown by first covering one half of the face in a portrait, then the other. In most cases, the right side of the subject's face (on the viewer's left) appears pleasant or blank; the left side looks worried, fearful or even a bit sinister. The difference is even more pronounced when a composite face made of two left sides is compared with one composed of two right sides...