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...merely sit on the wall; it appropriates the whole surface, making the room itself an instrument of reverie. Spotlights play on the graphite-black surface of the sculptures, carving patch within darker patch of shadow until the inner forms of the wall are drowned in obscurity and only the faintest rustle of black under black suggests their presence...
...telescopes and a smaller 38-cm (15-in.) auxiliary telescope. As the instruments scan the skies, the images they capture will be focused onto sensitive photo-imaging tubes rather than film. An outgrowth of the military's night-vision devices, these tubes convert even the faintest flickers of light into electronic impulses, which are then fed into computers. There GEODSS performs its real prestidigitation. It separates from the myriad stars in the background any tiny man-made objects passing into the telescope's field of view...
...seems to be tilting ever so slightly, for a change, toward the U.S. There have been mistakes, hesitations and excesses by almost everyone in these past few months of crisis. That is not, however, an uncommon condition for a vigorous democracy. Out of the confusion at last comes the faintest suggestion of a coherent and effective force against the terrorism in Iran and the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. Bit by painful bit, sometimes because of Jimmy Carter, sometimes in spite of him, the protests and actions of the U.S., though often appearing puny by themselves, are beginning to take...
Every court must have a king. Jerome Robbins is the monarch of West Side Story. Beyond that, he is the Jove of theater choreography. His dances are thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...
...portly Prince nodded in sympathy, then told a member of his entourage what must be done. This ancient ritual, known as the majlis, enables even the lowliest Saudi citizen to express his desires or worries to the royal family. Supposedly it also keeps the royal family attuned to the faintest rumblings of discontent...