Word: warren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House-Kremlin hot line. At the same time, the President got in touch directly with Western European leaders and President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan, among others, in an attempt to obtain a collective condemnation of Moscow. All shared his concern. As a result, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher was dispatched to London over the weekend to discuss the situation with U.S. allies...
...Warren Zevon (Asylum, 1976). If a Black Mask writer studied Stravinsky, turned to rock and set down his hard-boiled romances on a piano played by shooting the keys with a .44 Magnum, he'd sound a little like Warren Zevon. Just a little. Rock of rare recklessness and unguarded sentiment...
...equally well as the seductress. Beautiful even in middle-age, she turns two potentially disastrous love scenes into touching monologues of vitality. No doubt the scene where MacLaine bares all for Gardiner--masturbates at his feet--will be criticized as too heavy-handed, akin to some of her brother Warren's shenanigans in Shampoo. But the scene is neither pornographic nor embarrassing and fits neatly and importantly into the narrative...
Take the portrait of Warren Burger that emerges from the "eight file drawers with thousands of pages of documents" and the interviews with "more than 200 people." Burger certainly looks like a chief justice, all white hair and crags, but he is a small man, venally self-centered instead of expansive, narrow-minded instead of broad. These are traits endemic to our race, and not sins, not breaches of conduct, not even very surprising. The worst the authors catch Burger doing is bending a few of the unwritten procedural codes of the court to satisfy his slight meglamania. There...