Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept his nation's military strong, but his countrymen now felt more threatened than ever. At their bluntest, Muscovites reflected that in death Andropov had at least spared them further months in which they would wait and wonder how long the Soviet Union could be governed by a shadow leader...
Stoler's nuclear expertise was augmented last week by reports from several TIME correspondents. Los Angeles' Joseph Kane, who covered the West Coast's problems, also was on hand five years ago for the Three Mile Island accident, interviewing frightened citizens living in the shadow of the cooling towers. Barbara Dolan talked with officials at several Southern utility companies who remain staunchly pro-nuclear despite current problems. Chicago's J. Madeleine Nash interviewed officials of newly canceled Midwestern nuclear plants. Jay Branegan, TIME'S Washington-based specialist on energy and the environment, interviewed Energy Department...
Although the lost satellite cast a shadow over the mission, Challenger's commander, Vance Brand, 52, a former Marine pilot on his third spaceflight, and his four crewmen, including Copilot Robert ("Hoot") Gibson, 37, a space novice, faced other weighty matters. In many ways Flight 41-B, as the mission is called under a new numbering system fathomable only to NASA bureaucrats, is the most ambitious sortie into space to date. It features a full agenda of experiments, including one intriguing test devised by a high school student to see if zero-g can relieve the agony of arthritic...
This enormous late work casts its ghostly and turbulent shadow over the whole gallery where other Titians, Veroneses and Moronis hang. Its subject is probably the most repulsive in the classical lexicon: the implacably vain Apollo has beaten the satyr Marsyas in a music contest judged by the nine Muses; now he collects his forfeit, which is to skin Marsyas alive. Renaissance humanists turned this myth into a fable of reason triumphing over darker instincts, and it was in that sense that Titian meant to paint...
...simply knew he was destined for mastery." The legend, said another contemporary playwright, "threw a shadow across the theater that endured for 50 years and no one escaped...