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...week progressed, J.J. continued to perform spectacularly. It followed the mast up to the crow's nest and found an undamaged brass mast light. The robot looked into the windows of the officers' quarters and propelled itself through the first-class entranceway to glimpse the ship's gymnasium. It went over the side and made an unsuccessful attempt to squeeze through portholes on the promenade deck. Said Ballard: "He has to go on a diet." There was an anxious moment as J.J.'s tether caught on a jagged piece of metal, but Bowen maneuvered the robot back and forth until...
...Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted, says the Count, was "to play music and have a ball." Basie and Murray get that spirit into their book, and now it is the reader who has the ball...
...silence was, in a way, understandable. Few bills that cross a President's desk have the potential to reorder the national agenda or change the way Government does business. Gramm-Rudman has precisely such potential, but the force that drove it through Congress was an embarrassment, not something to crow about. For at heart, Gramm-Rudman, an amendment to a bill to raise the debt ceiling, is a statutory act of desperation, an admission that Government is incapable of governing itself...
...rather the rationale provided by some of its supporters. The Jewish student and Beer are right in rejecting any notion that the current generation of white Americans have a responsibility to repay Black Americans for past injustices. Even those Americans whose forefathers were in the United States during Jim Crow and slavery cannot be held accountable for the discrimination of their ancestors, in which they played no part...
Just six blocks north, the style is different. At Danceteria the design does not highlight individuals but blends them in with the crowd. There are no balconies, no crow's nests for the surveyor. Rather, the surfaces are unelevated and there is a darkness here which effectively obscures any attempt at glitz. This is not to say that egomania cannot thrive at Danceteria; let us not forget Madonna was born here...