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Commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson had the demanding task of steering the 100-ton Atlantis to within three inches of the 123-ton Mir, at a closing rate no faster than one foot in 10 seconds, while the two ships sped in tandem around the Earth...
...their space station this time as hard as Apollo hit Soyuz back in 1975," says TIME's veteran aerospace watcher Jerry Hannifin. But that may not be an easy task. As the two spacecraft hurtle toward theirscheduled 9 am docking over Central Asia tomorrow, pilot Hoot Gibson will have to contend with a much more difficult linking than in the Apollo-Soyuz maneuver. "The Apollo and Soyuz capsules approached each other straight on," notes Hannifin. "This time, Mir will be stationary while the shuttle comes from underneath. The inertia of two 100-ton objects traveling at 17,500 miles...
Hogarthian characters abounded in the theater. There was Abel, the flamboyant homosexual who would hoot at pulchritudinous customers; Norma the manager, who had the face of a hatchet and the demeanor of Torquemada; Katie, poor, sweet, knocked-up Katie; vivacious Gilda, a fortyish woman of Italian extraction who had been raised in Ethiopia and who now devoted herself to the music and careers of heavy metal bands; baby-faced George, an aspiring actor who claimed to have had a meeting with Steven Bochco's people; and Autumn, as delicate a ditz as ever broke a man's heart...
...realm of daytime dresses and suits that Jackie and Audrey most haunted the collections. The biggest surprise came at the Chanel show, its strongest in many seasons. Just a year ago, Lagerfeld's offerings were a hoot-fluffy, puffy microskirts, silly hats, gold chains and logos attached to just about any surface. The designer's about-face is complete. Several of his knee-length suits had no gold trim at all. They were in black or mellow tweeds and looked like something you could invest in-like a car or a computer. Lagerfeld said he was "going back...
...brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes, the terse authority he gives such endearingly daft phrases as "Idiocy is our only option...