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...York City until 1949, but the landscape she made most completely her own, through more than 50 years of scrutiny and reverie, was that of New Mexico. She went there for the first time in 1929, and it never let her go. The windy space, the towering cloud architecture, the wrinkled hills "like a mile of elephants," as she once put it, and the reduction of all organic form to sweeping, compressed epitomes lend her paintings something of the grandeur of 19th century panoramic landscapes...
...spacecraft's TV cameras shot some 500 pictures in about three hours. Transmitted across 109 million miles of space, each picture took nine minutes to arrive in Moscow, where it was colored by computer to emphasize differences in brightness. The first images showed only the coma, the great cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus, as a fuzzy, violet-fringed, blue-green ball with a yellow center. But in images that Vega 1 shot when only 5,600 miles from Halley's, a dark red area with rather distinct boundaries appeared near the center of the image, and scientists...
...Halley's put on its most dramatic display so far. As the comet neared its Feb. 9 perihelion, its closest approach to the sun (about 55 million miles), the searing solar rays caused increasing amounts of material to evaporate from its icy surface. Eventually the comet's enveloping gas cloud, or coma, grew to more than 12.5 million miles across, temporarily becoming the largest object in the solar system...
Even so, several senators suggested enough questions had been raised to cast a cloud over NASA's reputation for safety and efficiency...
Just at that moment, as I was preparing to open the car door, the Federal Government appeared in a cloud of smoke. "Not so fast, young voter." It said. "I'm onto your game. And in the name of justice and lower insurance rates. I'm going to be forced to stop you, by preventing you from buying alcohol legally...