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...production has resided in the bottom third of the Nielsens. Its hold on life is secure for the next few months; a new season of shows begins Thursday, Oct. 29 at 10 p.m. But no one knows if the Emmy Awards will signify a gold star or a silver bullet...
Racing toward Saturn at 54,000 m.p.h.-20 times as fast as a speeding bullet-the 1,800-lb. spacecraft came within a cosmic hair of the planet's stormy cloud tops, clearing them by 63,000 miles. Then it plunged downward behind the huge gaseous sphere and passed through a large gap near the edge of the thin disc of icy debris that forms Saturn's multi-hued rings. Finally, like a pebble in a great celestial slingshot, it was sent hurtling off toward Uranus on a new course created by the powerful pull of Saturn...
...When they were "hit," they would yell "ouch!" or whatever else the scriptwriter demanded. Blood oozed out and the audience usually got the point. But the pellets left a blotch on the skin, which was not realistic in closeups. Ever the perfectionist, however, Coppola wanted not only blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor's real skin with a false latex skin, putting both blood and tiny explosive discs in the space between. On cue the discs were detonated by means of copper wires, creating an authentic-looking bullet hole through which blood would pour...
...Reagan has mastered one one art art in in life, life, it it is is that that of of relaxing. He is relaxed talking to television cameras. He is relaxed striding in boots toward helicopters. He is relaxed entering a hospital lobby with a bullet in his chest. Taking a holiday comes as naturally to him as falling on a horse, because he is not merely a member of the leisure class, he is its most prominent spokesman, an embodiment in the public mind of the new American work ethic: work some, play some...
...more than a decade of fierce and bloody battles with the Shah's secret police, the Mujahedin were renowned for fighting to the last bullet and then popping cyanide pills. But since the revolution they have displayed keen instincts for survival. After seizing some 70,000 weapons from armories when the Shah fell from power in 1979, they have bided their time, waiting for the proper moment to challenge the mullahs...