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Columbia's flight was "reasonably successful, considering everything," Alistair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department and associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said this week. "One has to expect all sorts of things will go wrong on these test flights, and that's what they're for," he added...
Widely regarded as one of the two or three best newspapers in the country, the Post got its reputation while inviting controversy. Watergate gave it a success it has since labored to match and an arrogance when challenged that compounds its difficulties. Back in 1978 Alistair Cooke defined the malady: "The Post is suffering from radiation, or smartass, sickness after overlong exposure to Nixon & Co." The result has been some notable missteps, such as a leering and erroneous account of Zbigniew Brzezinski's sexual behavior and a Pulitzer-prizewinning story that proved to be a phony. So when...
...word used with some regularity. Outerbridge plans to produce a pilot series for television, but he is wary of gimmicks. "We won't have an enactment," he promises. The rules of the game are clearly understood. No antic chorus, no laugh track-not even an introduction by Alistair Cooke-can really make Parents' eagle soar. Parents sums up the ancient contract: "A live person is looking at you and telling a story. That's a pretty arresting thing." Outside, the late afternoon shadows are beginning to lengthen...
...Good evening. I'm Alistair Booke. Welcome once again to the 50th anniversary of Masterpiece Theater, and the third chapter of our series Monarchy in Love. We have already seen the dedicated and rambunctious Prince of Wales-who had not yet become Charles III-in the sunset years of his bachelorhood, struggling to maintain his independence while hewing to a royal role that sometimes interfered with the imperatives of young manhood...
...That will be next time. Chapter 4 of Monarchs in Love, 'A Doll's Spouse.' Alistair Booke for Masterpiece Theater. Good night.'' -By Jay Cocks...