Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Splash to Greystoke to this feral melodrama about the encounter between a group of Arctic scientists and a prehistoric man they find miraculously preserved in ice. Tenterhook anxiety builds in the film's first hour as the scientists (led by Timothy Hutton and Lindsay Crouse) discover and then thaw out the creature (played by the gifted actor-director-choreographer John Lone). But once Hutton and the creature establish contact, moviegoers must make a great leap of faith, or surrender to the influence of an illegal hallucinogen, to watch the proceedings with a straight face. By then Director Fred Schepisi...
Hopes fade for a spring thaw between Moscow and Washington...
...nothing that might politically help the man whom one Soviet commentator called "the worst U.S. President since Truman." The prospects for significant progress in the superpowers' relations for the remainder of this year have rarely appeared dimmer. Said one top Reagan aide of the chances for a thaw: "I think under any scenario we're talking about next year...
...that the Soviets have been terribly helpful in promoting a thaw. The flicker of conciliation that flashed when Chernenko first took power has long since been extinguished. The Soviet leader's replies to two letters from Reagan seeking specific responses on various issues consisted of "puzzling vagaries," according to a State Department official privy to the correspondence. A third letter, carried by retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate...
...primary day, soon after the first ballots had been cast in Dixville Notch, flakes began to fall. By dawn a swirling nor'easter was repainting the state white after an unseasonable two-week thaw.. The turnout (101,129, or 75.8%) was surprisingly large, but it was a Hart crowd: half were under 40, and 40% were independents who went for Hart by 2 to 1. Mondale did carry the over-60 age group, but its turnout was about 10% lower than in the last primary. The ever efficient Mondale organization dispatched 30 cars in Manchester alone and even...