Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Saturday dawned, Challenger's crew learned that a dust storm had developed across the Atlantic at an emergency landing facility near Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Under NASA's tight safety rules, a shuttle cannot go up unless it has a place to land if something goes wrong before it reaches orbit. Such facilities have never been needed, but every risk had to be minimized. Challenger's crew would have to wait another 24 hours...
...spent $275 for a rowing machine. An avid runner, he thought it would help keep him in shape. It also recalled his glory days as a member of a college crew. He soon discovered that the workouts were not as efficient as running. The machine is now collecting dust in the study of his Chevy Chase, Md., home...
This all sounds pretty Orwellian, but here comes Gilliam's comic twist. Almost immediately after the dust settles, a man in a tweed suit walks in and politely gives the terrified Mrs. Buttle a receipt for her husband before leading him away. At the same moment, state-employed maintenance men begin shouting at the stormtroopers through the shattered ceiling, cursing them for messing up the heating system...
...laughs and struts away, brushing make-believe dust off the seat of her bootcut corduroys...
...whole picture is like that: too much of a noble thing. Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing. For every scene of raw artistry--as when young Celie's brutal husband "Mr." tears her away from her beloved sister Nettie--there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played...