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...interim agreement that somewhat lowers existing ceilings on strategic weapons and perhaps imposes some new subceilings to cover shorter- range weapons. There is no guarantee that the President would approve such a plan. It would mean siding with State Department moderates against Pentagon hard-liners. The plot would thicken further, since there are divisions within the State Department as well. Paul Nitze, who is Shultz's special adviser on arms control, has tended to oppose temporary agreements in principle since they induce both sides to have plenty of new weapons in the pipeline for the day that the agreement expires...
...convincing, speaking in a male voice. But the chapters are not merely testimony; the writer's own narration takes over, and memory and present time wash in and out. Now and then - always sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with...
...been floated into position in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Toward the end of the 4,000-mile journey, summer ice and high winds in the Bering Sea became a problem, but the huge plant managed to beat the feared September deadline, when the ice begins to thicken...
...team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...ever-faithful butler when--of all things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears out of thin air to thicken the plot into a London fog of incest, revenge, hidden pasts, family treasures, eccentric old ladies, and crazies of all ages...