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...scientists, AXAF will offer two advances over current x-ray telescopes. According to Harvey Tananbaum, associate director at CFA, the new telescope "will be able to take sharper pictures, detecting fainter, more distant sources." Also, AXAF will remain in orbit for 15 years, in contrast to current telescopes, which function for only a year...
...what social workers call a dysfunctional family: a mother who was physically and psychologically abusive and four middle-aged children who still suffer the weaknesses she inflicted in teaching them to be strong. In many plays, hardened grandmothers conceal a cuddly core. Inside this woman is an iceberg, distant and adrift. When the retarded daughter has poured out longing for marriage and babies, for tenderness and some shred of affection, her mother rises and leaves the room without a gesture or word, just a slow shutting of the door...
Yeltsin toiled diligently to bring the capital's food supply and distribution system under control. He traveled the city by subway -- unheard of for a Politburo member -- and commuted from distant suburbs to check on transportation conditions for workers. He would even barge into meat stores to find out who was getting the best cuts. These shock tactics delighted ordinary Muscovites but infuriated the party "Mafia," an old-boy network of distribution officials and real-life gangsters...
...exhibition of trash art by the Cabot House superintendent is tantalizing residents with visions of an Ecolympic triumph, but for now victory remains as remote as Harvard Yard for the distant dormitory...
GRAND HOTEL. The main reason to see this show on Broadway was Tommy Tune's sinuous staging, superbly fitted to its space. On tour, this week in Cleveland, it looks at once distant and squashed. The only compelling performance is by Brent Barrett as a doomed, down-on-his-luck aristocrat...