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...planet Jupiter-and beyond. Pioneer 11 is an almost identical twin of its predecessor, Pioneer 10, which will pass close enough to Jupiter in December to send back pictures and data about the atmosphere, strong magnetic field and puzzling red spot of the giant planet. Because the new craft, like Pioneer 10, may break the sun's gravitational grasp after passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude...
...adaptation of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep, released in 1946 and by now a sort of touchstone in the genre. But Altman is no friend of fleet dialogue, especially when it can be replaced by a stumbling, windswept improvisation; other niceties of the writer's craft, like character and coherence, are similarly disdained...
...turns a puritan eye on literary politics and celebrity. "The clean handling of fame is what's asked for," he says with his jealousies tightly reined. "Not too much clowning with Eugene McCarthy, a low profile, a civilized private life well enclaved within the mysteries of the craft" is his preference-an ideal as hunted out as the mountain lion in a landscape of public egos...
Most of this is rendered in maun dering monologues and non-sequiturish asides. A Williams groping for words, parched for images, fumbling in dramatic craft- all this seems incredible, but alas, it is true...
...mention more serious plays (Bus Stop) and the TV series My Sister Eileen; and John M. Bay, 45, Dublin-born actor who met the lady briefly in New York 15 years ago, then again in January while they were rehearsing for the London production of Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings; both for the first time; in London...