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Ever since last November, the new space shuttle Challenger has been perched proudly on its Florida pad, pointing skyward like an anxious eagle. Last week NASA officials gloomily conceded that their $1 billion bird may have to sit in its nest a while longer. The latest delay involves the most serious problem yet encountered with the troubled Challenger: a basic defect in design that requires overhauling all three of the main engines. Unless the flaw can be quickly corrected, the problem could create a horrendous backup of civilian and military satellites waiting to be carried aloft and add millions...
...reverse structure. This is no mere matter of flashbacks. Rather, Pinter charts the entire course of Jerry's affair with Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened...
...victory against an indigent criminal like Herrin is often largely symbolic. Says Boston Attorney F. Lee Bailey: "Violent criminal defendants are generally penniless. You seldom collect." There are exceptions. Some infamous criminals have earned nest eggs by writing, or selling the rights to, their stories. Happily, it is becoming harder for these criminals to profit from their misdeeds. Fifteen states, including New Jersey last week, have adopted so-called Son of Sam laws, named for Multiple Murderer David Berkowitz, which lock up proceeds from books and other ventures to satisfy claims by victims or their survivors. One such moneyed killer...
...collapse. On an ad hoc network formed by Mobil Oil, the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Nicholas Nickleby and the sagging post-holiday spirits of 10 million viewers. And on each of the three "major" networks, a cop is still chasing a crook, another teenager outsmarts her sitcom dad, a nest of vipers buzzes in the bosom of one more TV dynasty. Click, click, click...
...being a body to "consult" on major ethical issues like the University's stand on Vietnam or South Africa investments, as it once had been, the Faculty now existed as a body to talk over and eventually ratify proposals that had been previously issued . In short, the Faculty--the nest of brilliant ideals and lofty debate--had become a rubber stamp...