Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Among them was a leaky valve in the shuttle's million-dollar space toilet, a source of trouble on four previous flights. In addition, solar panels on India's Insat-1B, a $45 million communications satellite released by Challenger, failed to open all the way, threatening to render the satellite as useless as Insat-1A, launched last year, which also developed panel problems. Still, said Mission Evaluation Manager Joseph E. Mechelay, "none of these things should affect STS-9." That flight is scheduled...
Patience's two leading men render fittingly stereotypic presentations of their characters. Thrope's Bunthorne is hopelessly clownish; he mugs ridiculous poses and his gray velvet costumes and black wig capture his superficiality as he practices all over the stage during his solo "Am'I Alone and unobserved? And Sullivan's Grosvenor mocks all handsome heroes with his marcissism powered by a stage presence that would sweep even the audience off its feet. Sullivan and Thrope prove excellent foils in brisk repartee during their duet. "When I Go Out of Doors," as Bunthorne tries to convince Grosvenor to become more...
After covering the Republican campaign, Barrett was named TIME'S White House correspondent in 1981. Familiarity with the Reagan team certainly did not breed contempt in him; neither did it render him unwilling to make tough judgments. He depicts Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as deceitful and ineffectual, Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver as a plodding loyalist, National Security Adviser William Clark as a tough conniver, and Chief of Staff Baker as a game player with few deeply held beliefs...
...called iridoid glycosoids, they are highly unpalatable to birds as well. These chemicals, Bower explains, may be toxic to some insects, but checkerspots have evolved mechanisms to excrete them quickly, sequester them in their exoskeleton or detoxify them. Thus the plant protects itself from most predators, and the butterflies render themselves "bitter" and in some cases nauseating. After feeding on members of these specialized species birds often throw...
...this work. It may be that Badham is an exemplary case: yet another talented craftsman caught up in Hollywood's current belief that the big bucks are in the big-bang school of moviemaking. In War Games the search for a big, effects-laden finish does not render the film entirely unwatchable. It just prevents it from becoming the video fantasy it might have been. - By Richard Schickel