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...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Mars is a Long Way to Travel for a Little Publicity | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

...readers of Bass's stories (collected this year in The Watch) can attest, he also knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At Play in Fields of Energy | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Bikinis of dental-floss dimensions are hardly an endangered species, as any visitor to the beaches of Long Island or Southern California can attest. And designers point out that no miracle of construction can transform a middle- aged woman into a sleek postadolescent. "No matter what kind of suit you put on," says Anne Klein designer Louis Dell'Olio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Back From The Bikini Brink | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...those roommates who lived together have split up for various reasons. But once again, by not searching my feelings at the beginning of the situation, I waited and made things more difficutlt, thinking, maybe, that it would all come to me in a dream. Three years later, I can attest that nothing yet has come to me in a dream...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...those willing to leave Cambridge to watch their sports, Boston offers some of the finest professional teams in the nation. Boston fans are renowned for their intense loyalty and emotional fervor, as any visiting Yankee, Dolphin, Knick or Canadien fan will attest. If they manage to get out alive...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Harvard, the Haven for Armchair Athletes | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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