Word: vaguest
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Paradoxically, when the film is vaguest it is often at its strongest. Impending nuclear war is announced in a series of bulletins on radio and television, casually broadcast and half-heard at first. The sound track carries snatches of references that accelerate to slightly longer descrip tions of airport blockades and MiG-25s "invading West German airspace" and that end, finally, with a shocked anchorwoman saying, "Three nuclear weapons in the low-kiloton range were airburst this morning over advancing Soviet troops." There is only calamity after that. ABC's determination to keep up appearances of political evenhandedness have...
Having achieved his prime goal of a statement on arms policy, Reagan was content to settle back and allow the vaguest possible economic declaration to emerge from the Williamsburg conference, mainly because any detailed document would probably have dwelt on the problems caused by high U.S. budget deficits and interest rates. Reagan was offered some protection from criticism by the implicit protocol of such conferences, in which members refrain from trying to dictate specific internal policies to other participants. Neither West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl nor Mitterrand pressed for any direct steps to tackle the problem of high interest rates...
Chaplin was an improviser. He would order up a huge set or an elaborate mechanical prop (like The Floorwalker's escalator, the comic potentials of which we watch him explore) with only the vaguest notion of what he might do with it. Then, with all his co-workers assembled, with Chaplin doing detailed demonstrations of their pantomime ("he became me," Cherrill remembers) and working up the long, intricate comic lines that are his art's hallmark, the cameras would turn. And turn. And turn some more, through hundreds of takes. For it was only by studying what Chaplin...
Thackston echoed McKinsey in saying of the students, "Perhaps they're a little less concerned now with majoring in something that will take them directly to professional schools," but when asked about the reason for the increased interest, he added, "I don't have the vaguest idea--I'm as amazed as anyone else...
Since the Soviet offer was put forward in the vaguest terms, American arms experts could only speculate about what it all meant in terms of warheads and missile launchers. Their most educated guess was that Moscow would start by dismantling all of its SS-4 and SS-5 missile launchers, which were already slated for removal because they are now out of date. Precisely what the Soviets intend to do with their sophisticated new SS-20s was another question. One possibility is that they might offer to remove as many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads...