Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humorous/satirical view of the government's handling of the situation and the press' coverage of it. Throughout the Mastergate hearings, politicians confuse cliches and information. National figures like President Bush and Oliver North are loosely disguised as bumbling characters in the play. And throughout the performance, a TV crew stands to the side of the stage and resents a running commentary on the action, which critics are applauding...
Based on The Next Generation, a television series begun last year, the novel is a tale of the new and not so nice voyages of the crew of the hammer-head spaceship that has replaced the Enterprise of the original series...
CAPTAIN Jean-Luc Picard is simply a jerk. He is strict with his crew and makes his decisions by the book. He even twitches when he says the word "civilian." Kirk was always wise and likeable. His successor cannot even joke with his second-in-command, whom he insists on calling "Number...
...other main character in the novel is a teen-ager with growing pains, probably included for the sake of young viewers. Wesley Crusher, who gets to work on the bridge, is a pathetic boygenius angry because he is not treated like an adult by the rest of the crew...
...Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists in small boats from the U.S. research center at Palmer Station, a mile away. But the ship began leaking its 250,000 gal. of oil and spilling cargo, including drums of diesel and jet fuel and tanks of compressed gas, from its deck...