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...whole, the agreement is a faithful reflection of the current state of détente -and as such it is deliberately, and at times even infuriatingly vague. The Soviets see it as a mirror of the past, a static definition of their zone of control and influence. But for Western Europe as well as such Communist nations as Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary, it is a dynamic document, a charter for continuing and expanding contacts between West and East. The provisions for a 1977 follow-up are, according to one Rumanian diplomat, "a lifeline...
...directs us over to Gardiner for a beer before heading back to Tower. The saloon's a wooden affair with a long, running mirror behind the bar, a couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans...
After three pitchers of beer, Briggs and I drive to Ketchum that night. Fred sleeps in the back. It is a long, desert road. Cars are few and I trace their rear lights back to nothing in the sideview mirror, where they are but a pin-pricked rupture in the great sack of night, a bleeding stream of fleeting electricity. I push the van to 95 in the soundless onrush of blackness, while the flourescent stakes by the roadside teeter rearward and empty lights hang nowhere out in the desert, some mystery of some nuclear facility...
...ALVAREZ'S problems is that when he has something to say, all he can do is say it. When he wants a character to feel intruded upon, he manages it by narrative fiat: "he felt intruded upon." When Julie feels uncertain about herself, she looks in the mirror...
...eagerly sought while they were still climbing the ladder. Not so Elton John. Showing Correspondent David DeVoss about the rock star's suburban London home, John's mother gestured to a wall hung with masterpieces. Between a Picasso painting and several Rembrandt etchings was a novelty mirror carrying the slash TIME Man of the Year. Said she: "You can see the story means...