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...final exam in Matter in the Universe just a day before, and although I had done my best to ignore the class for as much of the semester as possible, my final week of studying had filled my head with a welter of black holes, bent time and astral planes. I was academically ready to watch and receive whatever the sons of the Gene Roddenberry were positing as the trek to end all treks. I even had the gall to guess at the cause of the Enterprise's misfortune (I was wrong; Cores are quantitative approaches to knowledge after...
...music for more than a quarter-century, since he left his native Belfast in 1961 to sing R. and B. to G.I.s stationed in Germany. He fronted a fine Beatles-era band called Them, then went solo and traveled to America. There he flirted with the mainstream before recording Astral Weeks in 1969, an album that set what was to be, for him, a more or less unvarying pattern: wild record, wild-eyed reviews, loyal but limited audience. Since then, he has wandered in the U.S., England and Ireland (where he now lives) but has never had a commercial breakthrough...
Indeed, why should it? Holly Cate, in sparkly Jem doll-like attire, is the third player of this astral menage a trois and the menace behind this confusion. As Charles' deceased wife, she does every-thing in her power to win her husband over to the other side. Charles consequently calls Madame Arcati, played by the effervescent Valerie Steiker, upon the scene to exorcise Elvira's spirit from the house...
...however, the overall impact of the numbers is to generate confusion and anxiety. Some of the statistics are subject to repeated revisions. Other gauges fluctuate so wildly from month to month that they seem almost useless. More and more, the art of economic planning appears to be degenerating from astral navigation to something closer to astrology...
...certain splendor. But astrology has been intellectually weightless since Isaac Newton. Yet it accomplished a miraculous revival around the turn of the century. King Edward VII (Scorpio) and Enrico Caruso (Pisces) consulted astrologers. The '60s, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, brought in the great age of astral tourism...