Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major milestone in the shuttle's flight readiness will come in mid-July, when Discovery's three modified main engines will be fired in unison for the first time. A few days later will come the final test of a booster by Morton Thiokol, the builder. Some of the three synthetic-rubber O rings (increased from two on previous rockets) that seal the booster's joints will be purposely flawed to see how well the rings can prevent the kind of leakage that triggered the Challenger explosion. Based on the outcome of the tests, NASA will decide on a precise...
...working parts, but one ankle was overdue at the shop. Offensively anyway, he tottered admirably through the first half, when Detroit led by five points. But against a turned-up blast of James Worthy, the Pistons fell behind by 15 in the last quarter. They had to make their final run without Thomas, and nearly pulled it off. "At the end of the game," said the Lakers coach Pat Riley, "you were watching a great basketball team hold on. We were just holding...
Everything important in A Handful of Dust is in the film: Brenda's almost somnambulistic descent into adultery; Tony's puttering obsession with his awful hereditary home; the death of their child, the tragedy that brings them to crisis; Tony's final flight up the Amazon toward the novel's immortal conclusion. James Wilby's Tony is stoically wet, and the subtlety of Kristin Scott Thomas' charmlessness as Brenda is awesome. But the malice, as well as the compressed energy of the novel, is beyond Sturridge and Granger. Waugh moved us to tears; this adaptation invites only respect...
...artistic freedom, was the director able to free his kidnaped film. Commissar won a Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, though the Soviet press neglected to mention it. A true movie hero, Askoldov is bold enough to fight for small victories and to hope for a final vindication: that even the Soviet public may soon be able to see a film whose very survival does them proud...
Reich said he ran for the Board of Trustees because it is a small board that is very active and which meets about five times a year. He said his duties will be to help determine the College's major expenditures, to make the final decisions on faculty appointments, and to determine school rules and revenues...