Word: mirrorized
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...possible strategy in a highway game of Chicken is to clearly demonstrate to your opponent that your wrists are handcuffed to the rear-view mirror, thus preventing you from swerving. Opponents who value their lives have no choice but to swerve in this situation. The critical provision here is that the opponent must fear death more than dishonor...
Those who want Americans to present a spurious unified voice in the Gulf crisis are suggesting that we handcuff our wrists to the rear-view mirror. This strategy may sound appealing until we realize that the slightest miscalculation of Saddam's aims could mean that we would have to make good on our threat in order to maintain our credibility...
VOICES IN THE MIRROR by Gordon Parks (Doubleday; $22.95). In this latest memoir, filmmaker-photographer Parks produces a fast narrative of a career that took him from playing the piano in Kansas brothels to the staff of LIFE, where, as the magazine's first black staff photographer, he distinguished himself with coverage of crime, poverty and the upheavals of the counterculture...
That was the case with the ill-fated Hubble Space Telescope, according to a remarkably frank investigative report issued last week by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The flaw that crippled the telescope's primary mirror was not obvious until after the instrument was launched last spring. Yet technicians at the company that made the mirror had indications of trouble long before the telescope went into space -- and apparently never told the design team about the disturbing signs. Meanwhile, managers at NASA who had responsibility for the Hubble project paid little attention to the details of the telescope...
There was more than enough time to catch the telescope's flaw. Rough grinding of the mirror began in 1978, final polishing was not finished until 1981, and the completed telescope sat on the ground for four years after the space shuttle program was disrupted by the Challenger explosion. The mirror's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Perkin-Elmer Corp.,* told NASA that the standards of precision established for the mirror were not only met but exceeded. The only problem was that the mirror had been painstakingly polished into the wrong shape...