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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exquisitely machined Erector set, these parts can be fitted together in different ways. For its debut next week, Spacelab has been configured in what designers call its "long module": the two cylinders have been mated to form one continuous workshop, about 13 ft. in diameter and 23 ft. in length. Positioned between the extended cylinder and the shuttle's tail assembly is a single pallet, holding 18 experiments, involving such equipment as cosmic-ray detectors, spectrometers and TV cameras. On future flights, as the experimental load increases, the tunnel can be lengthened and additional pallets added...
...Club members watched the scene on the other side of a length of string stretched out to mark the boundary between club and University land. "I'm very sympathetic to their point," said one, "but I think running in and doing this is just liable to create chaos...
...Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of the Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him, "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your hand about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth. I did not know you were there...
...convinced that one school captures the popular imagination than another, one need only note Hollywood's preoccupation--Love Story. A Small Circle of Friends. The Last Convertible. The Paper Chase--have all centered on life along the Charles. A Yale spokesman recently could not recall a single full-length movie about his school, but countered that "Love Story was written at Yale, and there were several Yale names in it even though it took place at Harvard." He added that "in Bedtime for Bonzo [starring Ronald Reagan, who went to Eureka], the monkey in the end gets smart enough...
...ridiculousness of the plot and the absence of any real theme, the jokes fly almost uninterrupted. It's a good thing, too, because the show's dancing and orchestration are not up to the same level. The choreographers take a chance, on extending the stage across the length of Kirkland's Junior Common Room in an effort to spread out the dancing sequences. But the set leaves precious little room for forward movement by the cast, and it gives some of the audience an uncomfortably sharp viewing angle. Dancers appear to run mindlessly and without much enthusiasm from...