Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Veterans of Cold War I who are rushing to re-enlist for Cold War II should get a lift from this jaunty medley of 1950s history and spy fiction. Through diplomatic freeze and thaw, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, has always kept his ideological thermostat set at a conservative 32° F. In his fourth novel-entertainment, he again slips into the adventurous alter id, Blackford Oakes, the dashing Yalie spook who first appeared in Saving the Queen...
Everyone gets through the arctic morning, huddling in blankets and blowing on fingers. The sun joins the party after lunch, and the audience, by now a fairly good lawnful ("Round it off to 4,000," says Morse with a promoter's optimism), begins to thaw out. There is a lot of good-natured yah-HOOOOing when one of the contestants gives a good down-home rendition of Whisky Before Breakfast or Chinese Breakdown. Dancers weave among the lawn chairs. A beery college boy with a painted face gyrates for a while and then collapses, to rise no more...
...father of Egypt," singlehandedly made peace with the hated enemy. Such debate is in the end irrelevant, for Sadat's journey, his ultimate quest, stands as one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. This fact cannot be overstated, for in one deft move, Sadat put a thaw to a seemingly rock-solid antagonism...
...languorous beauty and a former Gibson Girl, Evelyn Nesbit was dubbed "the girl in the red velvet swing" But she swung a little too much, and her dalliance with Stanford White prompted her husband, Millionaire Socialite Harry K. Thaw, to murder the celebrated architect during a musical-comedy performance on the roof garden atop the White-designed old Madison Square Garden. For the film adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's fictive replay, Ragtime, Director Milos Forman, 49, interviewed hundreds for the part of Nesbit, then settled on Elizabeth McGovern, 20, after he saw her in Ordinary People. The young actress...
...such linkage, stressing that future Soviet actions-most notably in Poland-are of greater concern than past excesses like the invasion of Afghanistan. One thrust of the paper is that if the Soviet Union does not move militarily into Poland and stops stirring up trouble elsewhere, a new thaw between Washington and Moscow might yet be possible, despite the stridency of the Administration's anti-Soviet rhetoric...