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...pushing more buttons. "Have you ever played Tanks at the 24 Rest? Well, this is better. It's called Space War. You have a satellite, and I have a satellite. Now you're in orbit". he says, pointing at the screen, on which two objects are rotating about a dot. "You can change your orbit by firing your engines, like this." Blips emerge from the back of one satellite and it starts to describe an ellipse. "Then you have torpedoes." He turns his spaceship, fires an arrow-shaped blip and the other ship disappears. Space War has an infinity...
They slip into the college gymnasiums that dot the East coast from Harvard's IAB to the fastness of Orono, Maine and Buffalo with civilian anonymity and emerge from their solitary dressing rooms as marked...
...been operation against the Portuguese have been re-activated, and the military has moved back into the bush areas, which are inaccessible to Soviet tanks, and which provide dense forest cover against MPLA bomber attacks. Because the support base of UNITA is essentially the hundreds of deep villages which dot the vast Angolan countryside, the fall of Huambo has had relatively little effect on the functioning of the movement inside the country...
...Pamela Payton-Wright's Laura is hauntingly evocative, a vision of a doe at bay. An actress who has done varied parts in the past several years, she is a pointilliste who composes every dot in a role into a harmonic whole. When she releases the driving passion she seems to possess, she may become an actress of immense power...
...final rehearsal for Verdi's Don Carlos in 1973 lasted nine hours. The orchestra call was only for five, and on the dot the players got up and walked out. A pianist picked up where they had left off, and Caldwell went on conducting, barely missing a beat, giving cues right and left to the absent musicians. When the pianist dropped out after two hours, another took over...