Word: subject
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...often overlooked, usually with unhappy results. A Secretary who cannot persuade his President to make him the chief recommender, articulator and executor of foreign policy will quickly be upstaged, most likely by the President's National Security Adviser. U.S. policy will seem-and too often be-confused, vacillating, subject to sudden flip-flops...
...billion presented the most difficulties, according to senior U.S. officials. For example, it was unclear what portion of the frozen $13 billion must be transferred to an escrow account in the Algerian Central Bank as a guarantee of good faith. Some $7 billion of those assets is subject to litigation by American companies that had contracts in Iran before the revolution. U.S. officials had hoped Iran would understand that Carter does not have legal authority to expatriate those funds. The implication was that the demand exceeded the amount Carter might legally deliver...
...thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid...
Like so many movies and books that try to graft topical subject matter onto the obsessive mass-market interest in the Nazi past. The Formula requires too much exposition. By the time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They...
Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...