Other songs on the album, particularly Go Away, 10 James Orr Street and Being Cold, essayed a devastatingly bleak, eerily beautiful brand of mid-1980s pop, all sugar-high vocals, a ponderous pace expressing the heaviness of existence and chord changes of the most exquisitely miserable kind.
His cold war essays, collected in The Secret World: Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War (IB Tauris £25), condemn the "squalid trio" of Cambridge agents – Maclean, Burgess and Philby – who betrayed compatriots to the Soviet Union.
In a collection of autobiographical essays, "Cold Wind Anthology," published in Shanghai in 1945, Chen Gongbo, a founding delegate from the southern province of Guangdong who, disillusioned, left the party a year after it was founded, wrote dramatically of events at the end of July 1921.
Reagan must have been happiest reading National Review essays on cold war disputes.
From the essay "In Cold Ink" in the collection "Trying It Out in America".
Alan Riding ("Rerun Our Cold War Cultural Diplomacy," Essay, Arts pages, Oct. 27) makes an eloquent and timely plea for the United States government to get back into the business of sending "serious" American culture abroad.
Richard Taruskin, in a cold-eyed 1993 essay reprinted in his collection "The Danger of Music," proposes that Cage, no less than Schoenberg, participated in the Germanic cult of musical genius.
Viewers who go in cold, without reading the aforementioned essays or Ms. Fioroni's artist's statements, may not grasp that she is embracing the cool detachment of American Pop Art while holding its mechanical techniques at arm's length.
Two years ago author Rahul Mehta wrote a personal New York Times Magazine essay called "The Cold Call," in which he shares the nascent stages of exploring his sexuality alongside examining his culture as a closeted gay Indian-American college freshman.
Despite not having heard her name for decades, I recognized it immediately, found a phone number, and called her cold, requesting her permission to include the essay in the book I was working on.
