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...flash. He sets off skyrockets, then more skyrockets. Great, arcing bursts of language streak across not just pages but whole chapters. (On pollution: "Maroon-brown patinas of condensing air . . . the noxious residue, the breakdown skeins of hydrocarbon linkages . . .") Then, before the afterimage can fade, the bedazzled firmament detonates again in grander, wilder colors. Great stuff, the reader thinks, and does anyone have an aspirin...
...FIRMAMENT OF POSSIBILITIES...
...sharp contrast to his counterparts in the Washington journalistic firmament, Greider boasts the temperament, outlook and career trajectory of an angry outsider. For one thing, he writes these days for Rolling Stone, a publication rarely confused with, say, the New Republic. Greider's stance also sets him apart from both Establishment toadies and partisan true believers, for he is a jaded idealist almost as disgusted with tepid reformers as he is with the hoard-the-wealth excesses of the Reagan and Bush administrations...
...Europe. If Arazi can take the two Derbies or the Triple Crown, his triumph will reflect on all of racing, a sport that requires superstars at least as much as the movie business. So far, Arazi is shining as brightly as any horse in racing's firmament...
...countless stars fill the firmament, they must be circled by countless planets -- or so everyone assumes. In the fertile minds of fiction writers, the distant worlds have taken on every imaginable name, from Krypton to Ork, and spawned every imaginable creature, from the Klingons to the Ewoks. But in real life no earthbound astronomer has ever proved the existence of a single planet outside our solar system...