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...someone whose life was filled with grand passion and frightening complexity, prison routine may prove deadening. Harris will rise at 6:30 a.m. and eat a breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast and occasionally bacon and eggs. Then she will do manual work: cleaning, floor mopping, dish washing. For clothes, she can choose between jumpers and slacks of mint green, yellow or beige. Luncheon and dinner entrees include meat loaf, Swiss steak, stuffed cabbage and similar hearty fare not common to the Tarnower table. In the evenings she will be allowed to wear her own blouses, stockings, shoes and a watch...
Despite this manual activity, Reagan pays close attention as Stockman, sitting beside him, leads the group through summaries of proposed reductions. The Bud get Director critiques, harshly, the spending habits of the Export-Import Bank and lays out his proposal. "Anyone have any comment?" Reagan asks. There is virtually no dissent as a large reduction is agreed...
Report is a 45-minute manual on the grunt's first challenge: combatting boredom while he learns his job. War isn't hell, it's just a drag. In depicting men at work, at meals, at the meager forms of play available to them, the film seems relentlessly mundane. And so it is -if the viewer forgets that many of these youngsters, smiling or shivering or just hanging around, are marking time before an early, explosive death...
...week in such subjects as navigation and astronomy, but each also spends many more hours poring over what Astronaut Crew Trainer Thomas Kaiser calls the "cookbook"-a 21-volume compendium of launch, orbit and descent procedures for piloting Columbia that will be on board during the flight. The manual is changed constantly; in the office shared by Young and Crippen is a stack of mimeographed revisions 2½ ft. high. The two men have also spent more than 1,200 hours working in elaborate mock-ups of the Columbia's flight decks, familiarizing themselves with the maze of switches...
...best for myself during my life. I think that is only human nature." Schell finds such sentiments to be radical departures from the orthodoxy of the founding father. It is as if people who were raised clutching Mao's Little Red Book had suddenly embraced an est training manual...