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...called ST will fly above the earth's atmosphere, whose turbulence limits the clarity of astronomical photos taken from the planet's surface. The ST's forte will thus be the sharpness of its pictures, which astronomers hope will help answer long-standing questions about the structures of distant galaxies and mysterious pinpoints of light called quasars, and about whether other stars have planets similar to earth...
...fault is not entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...
...stunned. "Must be a cruel joke," I thought. Or perhaps some strange dining hall prophecy about a March to come to in a distant future, when even Seafood Seashell Scampi or the nameless big beefy "extravaganzas" in brown gravy will attain nutritional grandeur...
Washington was and remains the nation's leading consumer of booze, imbibing ) at last count 4.78 gal. of spirits and 6.41 gal. of wine per person a year. Nevada runs a distant second...
Rushdie's friends worried aloud about how he could make a life for himself under the Ayatullah's threat of death. Would he hire guards, or remain in seclusion, or retreat to some distant land? Few held out any hope that Khomeini would simply change his mind because the real victims of the Rushdie affair were not only the hapless author and his wife but the 50 million citizens of revolutionary Iran. After a decade of terror and death, the country had seemed to be in the early stages of recovery. But by his actions last week Khomeini brought that...