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...close range to the station. The eight-day mission is a rehearsal for a June mission during which the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to become the first to dock at Mir. At Discovery's controls on this mission: Captain Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft. Nineteen-year veteran Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov is also aboard. On a Soviet flight in 1983, he survived an explosion shortly after launch by catapaulting to the ground...
Dreaming of the day when life and love would be "a quite unlosable game," Philip Larkin wrote, "Sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(Which was rather late for me)/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Bestle's first I.P." Sadly, 1963 was too late for Lawrence as well...
...opening strains of "Hey Nineteen" make me want to get up off my sedentary ass (which can be found, increasingly, parked in front of a semi-carcinogenic VDT), and boogie...
...Walter Becker and keyboardist Donald Fagen used the genre to create sharp, ravishing songs that were as invigorating as Kenny's are insipid. As Steely Dan, the pair combined the ! subversiveness of rock with the cool swing of jazz, yielding seven hit albums and sleek, acerbic singles like Hey Nineteen, about a 30ish Lothario and his drug-loving teenage girlfriend. Becker, whose stringy hair and Fu Manchu lent him a certain wanted-poster chic, and Fagen, in ever present sunglasses, nurtured their legend by seldom performing live, avoiding interviews and generally wrapping themselves in mystique...
...campaign funds to the 38 dissenters. Though the resolution had not been voted on, it was enough for the party leadership to draw it to the dissidents' attention -- much as the commander of a firing squad might blandly direct his prisoners to notice that line of rifles over there. Nineteen changed their votes...