Word: roughness
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...Chief Astronaut John Young charges that safety was sacrificed to "launch-schedule pressure." Young, 55, a highly respected veteran of shuttle or bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center that is too short, too rough and subject to erratic weather. While gliding the 100-ton shuttle into Kennedy rather than onto the dry lake beds at Ed wards Air Force Base in the California desert "may be a wonderful political policy," Young wrote his NASA bosses in January, "it is not an intelligent technical policy...
...sailors are captains now, but the seas are still rough. Women directors are free to make "people pictures" with women as sympathetic protagonists--as Deitch says, "We can't leave it all to Woody Allen"--or, like Spheeris and Heckerling, they can turn out action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent...
These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother...
...fire against the chill by the time the women arrived at her place to nail down September's issue. From 1915 until it closed four years ago, Harriet's place was called Young's Hotel. Built by her father John Young, it is hand-hewn pine and stucco, rough planks, notched banisters, Navajo blankets and deer heads on the walls--a set for any movie that goes by the name of Stagecoach. It had 16 rooms to let upstairs above the dusty front desk, rooms you let yourself into. "Our guests just went in the rooms and paid the next...
...that last statement, so say all the other newspaper hands, all of them unpaid. It costs about $300 a month to publish the Cuba News. Any moneys above that go into the community, band uniforms for the high school and whatnot. With the exception of a rough period about three years ago, Cuba's merchants, whose immediate market numbers but a scant 1,500 citizens, have kept the News in the black with their advertising (full page, $50; half, $25; quarter, $12.50; want ad, $2). And even during that lean spot, when word got around that the paper might...