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...They are foreign policy writ large." No longer content with surplus materiel from the arsenals of the superpowers, smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...
...remembered where my brother was. When I replied that I didn't know, the mullah said to his colleagues, "Why keep such vermin alive anyway?" They nodded. My interrogator came for me and waved a paper under my nose. "Well, it's all over, this is your writ of execution," he said. "By the way, if you change your mind about your brother, let me know. Maybe I can get the judges to cancel your sentence...
...conveyed by Robert Adams' From Lookout Mountain, Smog, No. 7,1970. It has some of the traditional ingredients: the high view, the extending valley. But tourists have changed the landscape forever, imposing on it their own cretinous expressionism: thanks to the aerosol can, their names (JOE, BILL) are writ large on the rocks, reversing the order of priorities that held in such places a century before. The MOMA show is full of such ironies and surprises. Although it cannot possibly do justice to its huge subject, at least it opens some approaches to it. -By Robert Hughes
Actually, there is no good reason for the Executive Branch of Government to be any more self-conscious about taking time off than either of the other two branches. The Supreme Court manages to flee Washington for the entire summer every year without a writ of apology, and Congress, as usual, has scattered until September. All this exiting has had a refreshing effect on life in the capital city, if not on its weather. Traffic flows; restaurants offer a table. The first drafts for all proposed budgets for FY 1983 are due at the Office of Management and Budget...
...Plummer wisely draws on it only sparingly. This is a more reflective Henry than we usually see; we not only hear him speaking but also feel him thinking. He is warmer, too; and we are spared the chilly detached efficiency that can make Henry a Fortinbras or Octavius writ large. This king is not merely admirable but actually likable. In short, Plummer gives us Harry as well as Henry. And the reigning king even betrays vestiges of the unrcined prince Hal from the two previous plays, as when he flicks tennis balls to a couple of courtiers, leaps up into...