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...last name or an occupation. For writers, anonymity is pleasant only until it begins to feel like obscurity. Then it is reassuring to be near other writers. Key West offers serendipitous encounters, noon walks, short talks. There are always parties, to refuse virtuously or to attend offhandedly, where balloons float in the pool and conversations are about Mozart's feelings for his mother or the best way to propagate a dinner-plate hibiscus. And there are none of the kind of sly references to agents, advances, deals, options and contracts that poison the air of the Hamptons...
...rhythm of that poetry is Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira is funny and pathetic, a street angel ready at any whim to float away on another cocaine cloud...
...instructive example of international cooperation in a difficult area of technology. It also may be a prelude to more ambitious undertakings. Planners are already talking of giving Spacelab an array of solar panels so that it can generate its own electricity from sunlight. It would thus be able to float freely in space between shuttle missions. Initially, the unmoored laboratory would be unoccupied, acting simply as a remote-controlled observatory for scientists on earth. Eventually, more modules could be added with on-board living facilities, thereby enabling scientist-astronauts to remain in space for weeks and even months...
...eleven-member ruling Soviet Politburo. Long after the ranks of T-80 tanks and SA3 missiles began rumbling through the square, the first sign of Andropov's continuing presence in the Soviet hierarchy was a huge airbrushed portrait of him that sat on a red-draped float during the ensuing civilian procession...
...G.I.s who now float on a comfortable cloud of acceptance as our "rescuers" may find themselves rejected as "invaders...