Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...boss's loyalty appointments," says a Bush aide. "After John's drinking problem cost him the Defense portfolio, the President felt he owed him." Four of the other members are among the nation's most competent analysts of scientific information. The only first-rate geopolitical thinker is the sixth member, Foreign Affairs editor William Hyland -- and that's the problem. Concedes PFIAB member John Deutch, an M.I.T. energy expert: "Our strengths run to the technical...
Unfortunately, the director cuts short the psychological drama--he was apparently afraid that he would drive away his audience if he lets too much time go by without spilling some blood--and turns a thinker's flick into a straight shoot-em-up. And that's where the movie fails...
...clear that both Washington and Moscow were fortunate to have Pavlov as the Soviet interlocutor. At the second session on the first day of meetings, the Soviet delegation was joined by Komplektov, the Deputy Foreign Minister. Komplektov was well known to veteran American diplomats as a hard-line old thinker. With Aronson, he lived up to his reputation. At lunch between sessions, Komplektov told bad Russian jokes about affairs with the actress Gina Lollobrigida. Across the table, he rehashed old Soviet positions on Central America and lectured Aronson about the sensibilities of small Latin nations condemned by geography to labor...
Love him or hate him, Richard Nixon is hard to ignore. Since his resignation in 1974, Nixon has re-emerged as an outspoken thinker on American politics and a respected analyst of foreign policy. His forthcoming book, In the Arena, excerpted this week in TIME, is his most emotionally fired memoir to date and his most exculpatory. Beginning with his flight from the White House, he recounts his moments of despair and his struggle to redeem himself...
...relatively recent past such as the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in New York; old practical forms like a windmill, a smokestack or a lighthouse; or things that have acquired a sort of timelessness as artistic stereotypes, like Myron's Discobolos or Rodin's The Thinker. But few of them are immediately recognizable, and they all derive from other kinds of art, including photography. The looming profile of Moskowitz's Flatiron Building comes from Edward Steichen's famous gray-silhouetted photo of that structure, made almost three-quarters of a century before; Thinker begins with another moody Steichen...