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...This will be the first time in three dockings that a NASA astronaut will stay on Mir. Shannon Lucid is supposed to stay on the station with two Russian cosmonauts for five months, marking the beginning of a continuous American presence in space into the next century. Lucid's stay would be the longest in space for any U.S. astronaut...
Happily, no hard feelings remained. With this issue, Trillin's deadpan humor and lucid prose return to the pages of TIME as a regular feature. He will be writing a weekly column on a characteristically far-reaching range of subjects. "Sometimes it'll be about Washington," he says. "Sometimes it'll be about what's in my basement." Whatever he turns his attention to is usually just fine with his readers. "Trillin is one of the great delights of American journalism," says managing editor Walter Isaacson. "He has the eyes and ears of a great reporter...
...profile of the Speaker of the House that appears in this issue. "I'd ask her about some obscure detail about the appropriations process, or about some event that occurred 20 years ago that shaped his thinking. And within hours--sometimes minutes--she would call back with a rich, lucid account pulled from her notebooks." This she did, Tumulty notes ruefully, while closing on a new house, turning 40 and coping with being five months pregnant with her second child (she and husband Paul Richter have a son, Nicholas...
...ARCADIA Tom Stoppard's complex, lucid drama--brought to Broadway under Trevor Nunn's direction after a lengthy London run--shuttles adroitly between the present and the 19th century, the allure of mathematics and the promptings of lust, broad comedy and large-scale tragedy. Stoppard's masterpiece demands comparison not just with other Broadway arrivals this year but also with the best in postwar English and American theater...
...book is a technothriller, we wouldn't expect lucid, evocative prose, although Davis does present us with the occasional gem: "He cut the corpse's intestines with the sangfroid of an obstetrician clipping a baby's navel cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics, for example, the Amazing, All-In-One Speech Formula: within a few pages, we see people pleading, muttering, snapping, intervening, erupting, venturing, uttering in horror (a personal favorite), inserting furrowing brow in non-comprehension, half-gasping, rebutting, speaking sotto voce (a diving officer, no less), barking, snorting, and chirping...