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...White House may be like a fishbowl, but at least it provides some privacy in the family quarters on the second floor. Not so Ronald Reagan's beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara. When the Reagans are in residence, TV networks station cameras with giant telephoto lenses on a hilly knob in the Santa Ynez Mountains, three miles from the presidential retreat. Even from that distant vantage point, the equipment is almost powerful enough to show how many rashers of bacon are on the Reagans' breakfast plates. This summer ABC was especially eager to capture a recuperating Reagan...
It was not until 1964, when the Museum of Modern Art mounted a retrospective of his work, that his rehabilitation got under way. In recent years, through books and smaller exhibits, his stock has risen further. The Chicago show, which travels in December to New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
To make their measurements, the astronomers used radio telescopes, which can peer through the clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles...
A paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
Anyone who switched on television last week could not dodge the images, old and new, of Viet Nam: U.S. helicopters retreating from Saigon ten years ago, gaily garbed celebrators parading through the streets of that city, now named after Ho Chi Minh, on the tenth anniversary of the Communist victory...