Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...policy, actually improve the working relationship between the U.S.and U.S.S.R.? Off in another noisy corner of the embassy, a Soviet diplomat pondered the idea and finally declared that there was no difference between Carter and Reagan. Then his expression grew distant and he added, "But at least we know where Reagan stands...
...hour of instruction on the range. "My sister's home was just broken into," says Albert Vidaud, 32, a Miami mailman, explaining why he and his wife Becky, 30, enrolled. "When that happened it really made me think. We put in extra locks, but I don't know if that's enough." Says Edna Buchanan, a crime reporter for the Miami Herald: "If everyone in Dade County took this course, it would certainly be a safer place to live...
...Policy. Successive elections this year have now settled ideologically the direction in which the Caribbean wishes to move. In order to deal with that, a proper U.S.-Caribbean policy must be framed. We do not know of any U.S. Administration that has ever had a Caribbean policy. The closest we have come to one were some initiatives taken by the Carter Administration, which sent task forces through the area to assess the problems and set up action teams for better relationships. In the U.S., the general outlook is, well, who's in power and for how long...
...only question the designers of the exhibition had in mind when they arranged it, but the question is unavoidable. The selections were made by J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery, Professor Nicholas Yalouris, inspector-general of the antiquities of Greece, and other experts, all of whom know how to develop a hypothesis as well as an exhibition. The installation affects a quest. It is divided among three distinct, sequential sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath...
...never happened that way. There is more myth than fact to Alexander. Perhaps he was in reality a flocculating maniac (with such a mother, why not?), barely containable to his men, the bane of Hephaestion's existence, Aristotle's worst pupil, and so forth. Who will ever know? There is a sentence on the final wall of the exhibition: "The search continues . . ." It provides the exhibition's one hokey moment, and it is also misleading, suggesting as it does that a continuing search for Alexander will yield something. The tomb may be unearthed eventually, but not Alexander...