Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains a formidable force, an old man who can at will command the attention of both the superpowers and all of his Arab neighbors. As he first proved eight years ago and continues to prove, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has transformed Iran into a state that the world must reckon with...
...bitter abortion dispute agree that a technology-dependent viability standard provides a weak foundation for constitutional rights. A new Reagan appointee to replace Justice Lewis Powell could tip the court majority. But any effort to find a new basis for the nation's abortion law would have to reckon with the essentially irresolvable conflict between society's obligation to protect a newly independent life and the mother's right to privacy...
...great storytelling and great acting, this week's finest offering is the 1951 John Huston classic, The African Queen (Winthrop House, Harvard). Screen legend and Dewitt look-alike Humphrey Bogart turns in an Oscar-winning performance as a drunken riverboat captain forced to reckon with the virtue of a beautiful missionary, played by Katherine Hepburn. Shot mostly on location in the Dark Continent, The African Queen proves that, in the hands of a superb director, the simplest plots can become high entertainment...
...They reckon they have another ten years left to skate before muscles and energy give out. Along the way, they plan to start a school for child skaters. At that point they may even have time for social lives. "We know people all over the world," laughs Dean, "but we have no friends." No friends -- only thousands of admirers clapping their hands nearly raw each night, for as long as T & D choose to lace up their skates...
...NASA will even speculate on when shuttle flights might resume, other knowledgeable officials cite the sole precedent: after a fire destroyed an Apollo spacecraft on the launching pad and killed three astronauts in January 1967, it took 21 months before manned space flights resumed. "We've got to reckon in about those terms," says New Jersey Republican Jim Courter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who follows the space program closely. The moratorium could be shortened if the flaw turns out to be something that can be fixed fairly quickly. But it could stretch out for years...