Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...departure from Russia's longtime insistence that a nuclear test ban must start with a flat ban on all tests, detectable or not, Tsarapkin agreed to accept the U.S.'s distinction between 1) detectable tests, which the U.S. is willing to ban if an adequate detection system is worked out, and 2) smaller underground tests, which the U.S. is not willing to include in the treaty ban because at present there is no known practical way of detecting them (see box next page). Said Tsarapkin: Russia will agree to a treaty banning only tests above the threshold...
...thing, which reached Broadway after a road tour of 66 cities, most resembles a set of verbal duets. Adapter Kilty, with an ingenious try, displays neat workmanship, and the two stars have gone gallantly at their rather anomalous roles. But pleasant and provocative as it is, Dear Liar falls flat, and not wholly for dramatic reasons...
...just a little tired of four sides and a flat face...
Tiger Bay (Rank; Continental) is a waterfront slum in Cardiff, Wales. A freighter lands. A sailor hurries to his mistress. In the flat where she lives, the table is set for two-but not for him. She suggests that he go "sleep with the sea." With rising fury they scream at each other in Polish, but the przeklenstwa are not loud enough to smother the pistol shots that kill...
...mirror: If spirits sag. can flesh be far behind? Standing on the brink of 40, she has avoided tristesse more successfully than most Sagan characters, but Roger, the latest of her lovers, has become much too considerate. After an evening of bistro crawling, he drops her off at her flat, saying, "I'll let you sleep. See you tomorrow, darling.'' Lately, Paule reflects, he has let her sleep more and more often...