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There was more than enough time to catch the telescope's flaw. Rough grinding of the mirror began in 1978, final polishing was not finished until 1981, and the completed telescope sat on the ground for four years after the space shuttle program was disrupted by the Challenger explosion. The mirror's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Perkin-Elmer Corp.,* told NASA that the standards of precision established for the mirror were not only met but exceeded. The only problem was that the mirror had been painstakingly polished into the wrong shape...
...Young, Gifted, and Black unfolds in a standard stream-of-consciousness manner, following Hansberry's life in rough chronological order. Autobiographical vignettes are interspersed with scenes from her two famous plays, A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. The Playwright (Amanda Frye) narrates scenes as the ensemble enacts her memories. She moves around the perimeters of those scenes, smiling bemusedly and offering commentary taken from Hansberry's speeches and writings...
...role with the rank and file," says Mark Clark, president of the city's largest police union. "She worked her way to the top. She never had anything given to her." The same refrain is heard during a gripe session with beat cops at a police station in a rough neighborhood. To them, Brown was anathema, an outsider, but Watson is almost family. About the harshest assessment of Watson came from a sergeant: "When she was a patrolman, she couldn't ride the streets. So you can't blame her for not having that experience. But you can blame...
...mudslinging might have been even worse had not local newspapers and television stations acted as watchdogs, correcting the worst distortions. In some cases, candidates' high-priced hired guns became issues. Republican consultant Roger Ailes, the self-styled dark prince of political advertising who helped to fashion George Bush's rough-and-tumble 1988 campaign, came under fire for branding Democratic Senator Paul Simon a "weenie." Ann Richards' adviser, Robert Squier, produced one ad that altered a newspaper headline to make it seem that the paper, rather than Richards, was criticizing Clayton Williams. The commercial had to be withdrawn...
...going to be rough no matter who'selected," she says. "And it will be determined, inno small part, by how the state legislative racesturn out. Because if you don't have aliberal-progressive in the governor's office youdamn well better have one in the legislature...