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Brotherhood indeed! True, those male jet jockeys opened the space age with daredevil rides in rinky-dink tin capsules and kangaroo hops across the lunar wasteland. But move over, buddy. The women are coming, breaching that old space boys' club and bursting into what Ms. magazine sardonically calls NASA's world of "flaming, phallic rockets." During the next shuttle launch, sitting right there behind the skipper and his copilot, watching those blinking dials and video displays with her eagle eyes, will be Sally Kristen Ride, 32, former schoolgirl tennis star, Ph.D. in physics, cool, witty and attractive...
...kangaroo did not die of a heart attack. It fainted. It probably fainted again when it learned of its premature death...
...place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died of a heart attack during the shooting, they tell me. No wonder. I suppose with white cockatoos going for $2,000 apiece, after Baretta, they couldn't have any flocks...
PROBABLY KATE BUSH has never run over a kangaroo with a van, or blown up a bank, or killed a G.I. in Vietnam. But she can sing about doing these things without sounding ridiculous. Her forte has always been the creation of a separate world with her music, a world in which she determines her own reality. The scenes she creates in songs such as "The Dreaming," the title track of her new album, don't necessarily sound true. Rather, they achieve a fantastic state more chilling than the actual scene could ever...
...Dreaming" presents one of Kate Bush's most disturbing worlds. Singing in the harsh Aussie accent of an outback miner, she expresses the victorious hubris of a developer crushing a primitive society like a kangaroo under the wheels...