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...conducting talks with Soviet officials on what he calls "super-regional" issues -- trouble spots like the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, which could ignite a clash between the superpowers. "We and the Soviets are necessary partners on some issues, like avoiding nuclear war, preventing local crises from becoming wider confrontations, and defusing regional conflicts," says Armacost. "But we're also geopolitical rivals. That hasn't changed. The Soviets will continue to try to erode the strategic advantages of the U.S. They will do so, however, in a more adroit and sophisticated manner than the old crowd...
...tended to keep his own counsel. When asked to name his boss's five or six closest advisers, a Dukakis aide said, "Some people might argue that there aren't five or six." But in recent years Dukakis has learned, if only by necessity, to rely on a wider group. As the campaign gathers momentum, the outlines of a Dukakis brain trust are taking shape...
...Hollywood," notes Production Designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, who worked on Last Tango and Last Emperor. "But before, it was a love-hate relationship. Now it's a love-love thing." And now it's time for Hollywood's last moguls to love Bertolucci right back. Columbia might begin with a wider American release for the film and follow up the gesture by financing the director's dream project, an adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. Surely Bertolucci, among all recent Oscar winners, deserves to see that goldplate turned into box-office gold...
Predock says he talks about UFOs and "magic lines of power" mainly "to disorient myself and my colleagues so new thoughts can enter into the soup." He is open to a wider, wilder array of ideas than any of his successful peers. Predock's great accomplishment lies not just in deeply absorbing eclectic influences ranging from Italian hill towns to science-fiction movies, but also in rarely letting one idea overwhelm the rest. And his sensible, good old Americanism, counterbalances his spacier side. On old Route 66 at Albuquerque's southwest edge is the Beach, a Navajo-blanket-pattern...
Whitla said the survey expands on "house life" questionnaires traditionally distributed every few years to selected house residents. The current "College life" survey will have a wider scope and reach more students, Whitla said. He said the survey would cover "a waterfront" of undergraduate issues instead of focusing on the residential houses...