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...gave Adams his elegiac outlook. At one point he recalls a moment when he and his companions came upon the scene that would become his most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941). With the last rays of sunset striking the tiny settlement, Adams scrambled to set up his camera, shouting "Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!" Not much, but enough for an artist of sublime sensibility to catch light on the run and keep it forever. --By Richard Lacayo
DIED. Christopher Isherwood, 81, British-born author whose fiction and nonfiction blended his real experiences with imagined ones, most notably in Goodbye to Berlin, his 1939 short-story collection about expatriates in decadent pre-Nazi Germany, which was adapted as I Am a Camera, a 1951 play and 1955 movie, and Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant...
COVER: Photograph by Ken Regan--Camera...
...control center, cheers rang out and champagne corks popped. Then came the bonus. Half an hour after the screens blacked out, Giotto's signals were picked up again; except for the camera, all of its instruments were still working...
Although scientists will be interpreting Giotto's data for months to come, Horst Keller, principal investigator of the camera team, announced some preliminary results. Halley's nucleus appeared to be 9.4 miles long and at least 2.5 miles wide, he said, and the surface, "velvet black and very irregular, with an indentation in the middle, like a peanut or a potato." On one side of the nucleus were what appeared to resemble nozzles, spewing out one minor and two major jets of gas and dust. Keller was puzzled by the blackness of the nucleus, which suggested that there is little...