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Although the show is stolen by Suarez's seductively lucid performance, passion flows freely between every member of the ballet. With echoes of her role as the youthful Princess Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty," Ponomarenko dances with the broken-hearted delicacy of an innocent girl losing her first love to another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose...
...SHANNON LUCID First woman to receive Congressional Space Medal of Honor, for record 188 days in orbit...
...despite the now-lucid platform of both candidates, some say the debates did not achieve their potential...
...sign of the times that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please...
Norman Thagard, the only other American to live aboard Mir, spent 115 days on the station last year, losing 17 lbs. and complaining afterward of the "cultural isolation" he felt while aloft. Lucid found that she was sometimes treated like a second-class passenger. Her crewmates occasionally left Mir to conduct maintenance outside. When they did, they placed red tape over the communications panel, a blunt sign to their guest that she was not to fool with a system they assumed she did not understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian...