Word: tn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tn Washington, meanwhile, Vance stressed the Administration's conviction that negotiations over SALT II have only just begun (see interview). He said both sides would be working quietly toward the next meeting in Geneva in late May. President Carter too insisted that SALT II is still on target and predicted that the chances of reaching a new arms agreement before the expiration of SALT I in October are "much better than fifty-fifty...
...start of his year in Venice, he lived a kind of double life, cultivating wealthy Hollywood producers and directors. One of his friends was Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who is now the director of Portnoy's Complaint. Lehman introduced Irving and Fay to Irving Wallace and Stanley Meyer. Tn his private journal, Wallace remembers Fay as "a fantastic girl, incredible beauty-beautiful figure, beautiful neuroses, beautiful mind." His portrait of Irving is less flattering: "Fay told me Cliff is incapable of love. He is too selfabsorbed. As a writer and as a male, he's lazy. He will write...
...Tn 1953. during Stalin's last illness, Soviet doctors reported officially that Big Brother was being submitted to leeches be sides other therapeutic means no less archaic. We could ask then if their intention was to cure or to kill the patient. They were in earnest. Seventeen years later a patient of mine, strong enough to survive anything, told me. having just arrived from Moscow, that last winter my Russian colleagues found nothing better for her pneumonia than syrups, poultices and those Jacks-of-all-trades of Soviet medicine-leeches...
...only girls they can pick up are either imbecilic or overeager-so much so that Joey gets one pregnant and marries her in a seizure of romantic guilt. The jobs evaporate; to survive, the trio becomes a menage a trois. The bad luck persists with the tenacity of winter. Tn lunatic desperation, the men commit a petty crime that escalates into violence. The only way out is the way west, and once again the Nova Scotia Home consumes the miles...