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Still more revelations about other members of the solar system will follow. Between January and July 1979, first Voyager 1 and then Voyager 2, each after traveling more than half a billion miles, will begin closeup photographic surveys of the giant planet Jupiter and its larger moons. The surveys will be made with television cameras that have as much as 40 times better resolution than the devices carried by Pioneers 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in 1973 and 1974, and returned color photographs to earth. After approaching as close as 280,000 km (174,000 miles) of Jupiter...
...complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines her chest for the first time after surgery. A lesser actress would not have risked such a moment in closeup...
...were taking place; he would call them only "serious discussions." CBS's Robert Pierpoint apologized on the air: "We're doing our best with the material at hand, Walter, and maybe later the news will be better." NBC was reduced to opening one news broadcast with extensive closeup footage of a honey bee working over Camp David daisies...
...breakthrough show that uses documentary techniques to record the dramas of real-life doctors and their patients. Though marred by heavy-breathing narration and a worshipful view of American medicine, the first episode does present an affecting portrait of a surgeon at work. The show's closeup depiction of operations and lack of continuing characters ensure bad ratings, yet that didn't bother Silverman when he announced Lifeline last spring. "You've got to take chances," he told NBC's skeptical affiliates. "Lifeline could be the single show on any network this fall that changes...
...frontier values. Early on he hitches up with a Peckinpah heroine - a bitchy, citified photographer who is hungry for a Real Man. For some reason, Ali MacGraw has emerged from unofficial retirement to play this demeaning role. Peckinpah shows his gratitude by shooting her synthetic facial expressions in humiliating closeup...