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...pieces of galactic real estate that cannot be observed visually. State-of-the-art infrared detectors routinely fly aboard high-altitude balloons and reconnaissance aircraft, seeking evidence for heretofore unrecognized warm regions of space. Ultraviolet and x-ray spacecraft, perched in orbit far above Earth's opaque atmosphere, map distant sources of potent radiation emitted by previously unknown exotic astronomical objects; these are not merely passive probes like pioneering satellites that marked the dawn of the Space Age, but whole observatories remotely operated by teams of scientists, much like major ground-based telescopes. And robot spaceprobes navigate through the system...
...Distant Thunder (1975). The ravages of a famine as seen through the pointillist vision of Indian Director Satyajit...
...reasons for this deterioration in production per hour worked. Among them: the heavy burden of Government regulations, the entry of so many untrained first-time workers into the labor force, and the decline of research and development, in part because managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too distant, too uncertain. Turgid productivity, which aggravated inflation and contributed to the debauch of the dollar in world markets, is as serious as any problem that the nation faces as it enters the 1980s...
...Sloan & Co. in Washington, D.C.; Mortons in New Orleans; San Francisco's Butterfield & Butterfield; West Palm Beach's Trosby Auction Galleries. The so-called country auction where the city slicker might once snap up for a song a Revere salver or a federal highboy is as distant a memory as the nickel newspaper. Says Scudder Smith, editor of Antiques and Arts Weekly, "You look around some of these little country auctions and there are 25 well-known dealers there...
...with deities made to appear more beautiful and menacing than they really are. Hollywood, In short, is a good read, even when encountered in Moviola, an overwrought, eulogistic novel about the film business. The book is a greenhorn-to-mogul saga with cameo performances by great stars of the distant and recent past. There is even a bit part for Thomas Alva Edison, without whose inventive genius...