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...this theory, the party apparatus, and hence Chernenko, had lost out when Defense Minister Ustinov tipped the balance in support of Andropov, who had been head of the KGB for 15 years and shared the military's concern for discipline and efficiency. The actual explanation may have been far simpler. Andropov's colleagues on the Politburo apparently considered him to be the more qualified of the two. But once Andropov's health began to fail, Ustinov, Tikhonov and Gromyko evidently decided to line up behind Chernenko rather than throw their support to a younger contender whom they considered too inexperienced...
...technical edge, but during the past four decades such strategic leads have always proved temporary. By the time the other side catches up and serious negotiations begin, the investments in the new weapons are so swollen that striking a bargain is all but impossible. It would have been far simpler to negotiate nuclear arms control in the early 1950s, when the technology was primitive and the arsenals dinky, or in the early 1960s, before ICBMs had proliferated. Similarly, it would be easier to bargain and control space weapons right away than a decade hence, after deployment has begun...
...locked in small family struggles Frequently an important member of the family is dead, divorced, or mentally disturbed. A ring of failure circumscribes these individuals they aren't terribly smart or talented, and they have problems which seem so overwhelming that they shut them out, and concentrate on the simpler task of just getting by. "The Nature of Almost Everything" begins. "Tell you at thirty-six my goals are to stay sober and pay off my MasterCard bill...
Such exposures eventually cooled the public passion for made-to-order miracles. But, as the author acutely notes, it will not do to dismiss the Victorian period as a simpler time, when the naive were easily swayed by con men and shadowy ladies. Today every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than...
...basic shapes that make up the Elegies, held between bars or strung like meat on a skewer across the canvas, could hardly be simpler: black ovals or ragged beam-shaped forms that bear a resemblance to bullfighters' hats, black frames that evoke the deep shadow of doors in light-struck village walls. But out of these signs Motherwell has fashioned a resonant and funereal sequence of images that, despite its repetitions (when in doubt, paint an Elegy), is one of the few sustained tragic utterances in post-Picassoan art. He has always been faithful to the abstract expressionist dictum...