Word: orbit
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...Glenn. John Glenn is a hero. He deserves to go anywhere he wants to go. He would have earned his wings if he'd done nothing more than fly those 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea, let alone risk his life as the first American to orbit the earth...
...critics are right. Maybe what animated us back then was less the spirit of exploration than the spur of nationalism. Maybe it was all about beating the Russians. How else to explain how we've been content to go around in circles--literally, around and around in low-earth orbit--for the past quarter-century...
...what of the work? Varnedoe's catalog essay bears the title "Comet: Jackson Pollock's Life and Work," which fits the eclat and brevity of Pollock's appearance. But comets eventually swing back on their orbit and return, whereas Pollock was a singular and not a cyclic event, more like a meteor that plows into the earth and wreaks havoc on its climate, filling art's air with fallout. Artists have been defining themselves and their work against Pollock ever since. Yet most of his influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint...
...Will he return to space yet again? Only if his wife, Annie, lets him, said the senator, and only if there were "some rising demand." Considering the trouble NASA is having getting the ISS off the ground, administrator Dan Goldin would no doubt love to stick Glenn in permanent orbit...
Yesterday afternoon, as the nation watched, one of our living legends blasted off into the heavens. Thirty-six years after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), now 77, has once again captured our hearts aboard the space shuttle Discovery...