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While Trieste II could reach great depths, it was little more than a spherical cabin suspended from a buoyant hull and capable of withstanding great pressures. But it was unable to rescue submariners or salvage vessels. What was needed, the Navy decided, was submersibles and ROVs able to maneuver at depths far in excess...
...pivotal roles, recasting reduces the pain and power of the play. Michael Siberry, blond and robust, plays Nicholas as one of nature's optimists, buoyant with pride and hope. The dark, hollowed look and manner of the original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
Standing watch over the elegant sailing ships were the massive, muscular vessels of war: destroyers, frigates, the battleship Iowa and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, from which the President and Mrs. Reagan surveyed the harbor and the Friday-night fireworks. These leviathans provoked a different reaction, a buoyant chauvinism. As a crowded Staten Island ferryboat passed by the Kennedy, one sightseer called out, to cheers and laughter, "Come on over, Gaddafi...
...they rolled away from Portland's fashionable Oregon Episcopal School, the 15 students and three adult leaders were swept up in the buoyant mood of people off for an adventure. The agenda: a fast round-trip climb of 11,239- ft. Mount Hood. By 2:30 a.m. on Monday last week, the group, light in spirits and equipment alike, had traveled the 70 miles to Hood's base and started the climb. Why not? They planned to get back before dark. The Rev. Thomas Goman, one of their leaders, had 18 similar climbs under his belt. They carried enough food...
...State of the Union report, however, Reagan displayed the buoyant optimism that is at the heart of his personal appeal, touting the magic of the free market and the strength of the American people for a revitalization of the nation's economy. "If ever there was an Uncle Sam, it's him," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as he watched a replay of the speech. Although he has embodied Uncle Sam for five years now, Reagan still does so by chastising the Government he heads. "A lumbering giant," he called it, "slamming shut the gates of opportunity." His national...