Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea is that Ronald Reagan leans back in his leather barrel chair, takes out his felt-tipped pen, looks out over the Rose Garden and writes a note to the other member of the superpower club, Konstantin Chernenko...
...idea is that the note, once in the chubby fingers of Chernenko, suggests a certain intimacy and shared responsibility that only the two of them can appreciate. The hope is to plant in the Soviet leader's mind the hint that Ron might not be all bad and maybe the two should warm...
...place of the L for limitation in SALT came from Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor and leading hawk who had joined the NSC staff. Pipes and Allen wanted to call the new talks SART. That did not catch on. White House Chief of Staff James Baker passed a note to Allen during a meeting: "How about 'Faster Arms Reduction Talks...
...some secret place, where every secret is wrapped in another secret, some political figure of great power took note of this most grave situation [the imposing rise of Solidarity in the summer of 1980]and, mindful of the vital needs of the Eastern bloc, decided it was necessary to kill Pope Wojtyta...
...naturalistic stride. With fine impartiality, Patrick has provided good roles for Burt Young and Tony Musante among the Mafiosi, for Jack Kehoe and Geraldine Page as a crooked cop and his adoring mom, and for Kenneth McMillan, playing an aging safecracker with a sad personal life, who provides a note of weary realism. Under Stuart Rosenberg's intelligently permissive direction, they provide the film with a rich variety of eccentric life...