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...reply. They hid the car at Camp David, drove it out during one of the sessions, and when it was in place Nixon suddenly halted the meeting, took Brezhnev out to see the auto. He was delighted. Nixon suggested they go back to the meeting. Brezhnev insisted on a spin. He put Nixon inside, ignored the idea he stay on the Camp David roads and roared out on the highway. That too-automobiles and highways-seemed a part of the future, as Brezhnev saw it, in partnership with Nixon...
...enjoys a nightmare situation," says a Dallas associate-and that is exactly what Perot has found on Wall Street. Though the stock market last week rebounded from a four-month tail spin, prices as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average have still fallen 15% from their mid-January peak...
...sent fragments ripping into Salyut, thereby badly damaging the gyroscopic controls and thrusters that help maintain the ship's stability. Another possible explanation was that one of the Soviet Union's oceangoing tracking ships inadvertently fired one of Salyut's thrusters, sending it into an uncontrollable spin - 30 revolutions per minute, according to last count by U.S. trackers. That, too, could have caused the ship to break up in orbit...
...seems to spring from the wings. The leap to the podium is agile and sure; the bow to the audience curt, formal and, in the European tradition, from the waist, with the heels brought together in something just this side of a click. At this point, a Stokowski would spin showily and attack immediately. Not Solti. He turns thoughtfully, spreads his feet and shoots slitty glances around to make sure all is ready. Then, with a slashing, totally unexpected paroxysm involving every part of his body, he gives the downbeat. Throughout the performance, Solti's body language is dramatically...
...code of ethics no more elevated than hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy...