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Arbatov's statement is accurate enough, but it applies with equal weight to the Soviet Union, a point he makes, perhaps unconsciously, when he suggests that the fears of one side are the mirror image of those of the other side. "Senator Jackson claims that development of Soviet-American trade will indirectly help Soviet military programs," he says. "The mirror image of that is for us to ask: Should we help your domestic economic problems by trading with the U.S. and thus creating jobs there and supplying needed raw materials? By trade we do not mean mutual aid, but mutual...
...work, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the Grand Palais (through Oct. 13), is for all practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...
...would appear, that Shakespeare's universal mirror reflects every social being. In other authors this capacity might properly have been termed vacillation. With Shakespeare, it is universality. In that most universal play The Tempest, a magician recites his-and his author's-wistful valedictory...
...rights of childhood. Perhaps the explanation is that at 38, Engman is too young to remember the golden age of radio during the '30s when a whole generation of Americans grew up sending away for Little Orphan Annie's secret-society badges, Tom Mix's fabulous "mirror ring" (without turning his head, the wearer could see if he was being tracked), and Jack Armstrong's whistle ring, which sounded like a tiny siren and came with its own secret code...
...Boucher), needs all the voltage it can stand. From Chabrol and his stars, it gets only a few anemic charges. The paramours are intrepidly bourgeois, their longing for each other so squalidly selfish and narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately...