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...billion deficit projected for 1989 is so large, the candidate said, that a stack of $1 bills in that amount would reach halfway to the moon. The Federal Government, he went on, needs to borrow $500 million today just to get through tomorrow. The simple, vivid images were right out of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign repertoire, but now the speaker was Walter Mondale. All week long the Democrat pounded away at the budget deficits ("a trap door under our economy") and at the President's denial that tax increases are inevitable. And all week long the Reagan...
...hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
...full moon rose upstage center, like a prop, and the rehearsal wound down...
...engineer who goaded and guided the manned space program with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its predecessors from 1949 to 1976; of cancer; in Troy, N.Y. It was Low who suggested, in a 1960 memo to President John Kennedy, that a man could be put on the moon by decade's end. After the disastrous January 1967 fire that killed three astronauts, NASA Deputy Director Low took charge of redesigning and rebuilding the Apollo craft; with 90-hour, detail-obsessed work weeks, he met his deadline when Apollo 11 reached the moon in July...
...says of Garcia Márquez, Blades has "one foot on the moon and the other on the earth. We are both citizens of an emotional continent." Blades' songs, featuring characters as diverse as political policemen, murdered priests and pregnant teenagers, explore exotic territory that is made immediate and familiar by his graceful narrative gifts and by the fleet, conversational translations of the lyrics that he provides on the album's inner cover ("Where do people who disappear go to? Look in the water and in the high grass . . . When do they return? Every time our thoughts bring...