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Connell's performance is also effective, although Norman's explosive presence dominates the stage. As Austin, he nicely portrays the character's outer conflict between halting his brother's moral decline and saving his own career. He also copes with his deeper problems of dealing with his unseen father's alcoholism and destitution and his own dissatisfaction with his staid family life...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Too Good to be True | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

Another burst of information should come in August, when Voyager 2 makes the last swing on its grand tour of the outer planets. Launched in 1977, the probe has already accumulated scientific data and taken spectacular pictures at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Next stop: Neptune. From earth, Neptune appears as a tiny, fuzzy green ball of light, and its major moon, Triton, as an orange dot. Voyager will provide the first closeup view of both. Triton is especially tantalizing, since it is believed to have its own thin atmosphere of methane, and may be partly covered by oceans of liquid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: It Gets Better Every Time | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Gingrich has unsuccessfully sponsored such ridiculous legislation as a bill to abolish the Social Security System. He also proposed establishing a system of government in outer space...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The GOP's Changing Guard | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

...have actually come up with more than 500 possible go-betweens. Sometimes I sit up late at night, eat pretzels, drink Cream Soda and allow my mind to ponder the outer limits of the English language...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: When Guys Were Guys and... | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...life would reward the faithful electorate with an impressive display of bravery and statesmanlike behavior. So much for naive theory. To watch the House at work last week was akin to viewing one of those 1950s science-fiction movies in which the world quakes in dread of invaders from outer space. The climate of fear was that palpable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government by the Timid | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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