Word: reconnecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are many space programs, grand dreams, that could reconnect us with our cosmic selves, give shape to NASA's activities and stop the space agency from making $10 billion wrong turns. They are ideas that were filed in the round basket in NASA's rush to re-ignite the shuttle's engines: a manned expedition to Mars, a moon base, a reinvigorated program of unmanned solar system exploration, or even the so-called Mission to Earth, which would strive to understand our own planet before we ruin it for good. Like ambivalent lovers, NASA and the American people have...
...brings it off, finally -- and beautifully -- he gets a hug from Producer Quincy Jones. Dylan's face breaks into a wide smile, grateful, relieved and unguarded. That session could not have been easy for him; neither, one suspects, were these last years, looking for some moorings, trying to reconnect with an audience...
...reported by Australian Surgeon Ian Taylor in 1975, much larger grafts are possible. The procedure permits nourishing blood vessels to be transplanted along with the needed fibula section. The operation depends on painstaking microsurgical techniques developed in the 1960s that allow teams of surgeons, operating under a microscope, to reconnect the fragile transplanted vessels. Supplied with blood, the grafted bone will adjust to its new location and eventually become almost indistinguishable from the host bone...
Among the 1983 buildings that reconnect functional modern architecture with classic and familiar gestures, the best is Philip Johnson and John Burgee's AT&T building in New York City. Many critics who earlier chattered indignantly about the building's Chippendale pediment now realize that in fact it tops a slender, handsomely articulated granite tower best described as noble. Nor does it just stand there. It rises impressively out of the confusion of Madison Avenue and gives that teeming thoroughfare a much needed lift...
Your review of Breaking the TV Habit [Oct. 11] ends with the author's advice, "To reconnect yourself to the world, disconnect the set." To shut-ins and the handicapped, the good provided by TV is endless. Through my imagination I have been to sports arenas, enjoying every game. The pleasure of turning the dial to find the outside world makes my nights and days normal...