So far, Obama has (commendably) been virtually the only official or politician in DC not to succumb to scaremongering and dramatic cold war 2.0 rhetoric when it comes to Russia.
And indeed, the Summit Series was a more dramatic cold war clash than even the men's Olympic basketball final between the United States and the Soviets that took place that month in Munich, or the Fischer-Spassky chess championship of a month before.
Strangers on a Bridge by James B. Donovan This insider account of the dramatic Cold War spy exchange on the bridge connecting East and Wester Berlin is part memoir, part espionage thriller, and now the subject of a major motion picture.
I'm from the southwest coast of Victoria – a place of gloomy, dramatic beauty, cold seas, green fields and rain.
"When people are together, there is a union, and it can be tense, it can be romantic and dramatic and cold, but it's about how we relate and how we look into the mirror, which is another person.
And then to add insult to injury, he said, "I hope you're still getting out a bit!" I paused, pondered what he had said, because the snowfield I had touched towered hundreds of feet over me at the time, or so it seemed, and damn it was dramatic and cold, I didn't really care if it were technically a snowfield rather than a glacier.
The most dramatic post-Cold War expression of this posture was the resistance of Chirac and his Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, to George W. Bush's war against Saddam Hussein.
HEIDELBERG, Germany — For Germans and Americans who had long imagined a dramatic coda to the cold war, it came instead in a few solemn, quiet moments.
The movie is austere in emotional content - as if it assumes, in dramatic terms, the cold impartiality that CBS boss Bill Paley Frank Langellaaccusesses Murrow of neglecting.
Just a few months ago, National Weather Service scientists announced that they had recalculated the wind chill factor, first developed in 1945 and mainly used in recent years by television weathermongers to exaggerate the dramatic possibilities of winter cold.
At the height of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Adlai E. Stevenson, the American chief delegate to the United Nations, crystallized one of the most dramatic moments of the cold war when he displayed spy-plane photos of Soviet nuclear missiles being delivered in Cuba -- images that swept away Soviet denials that anything nefarious was afoot.
