Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Space & Back (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $14.95), a children's book co- written by Sally Ride last year and published this month, the nation's first woman astronaut tells her readers that all adventures are "scary." After last January's explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Ride seemed to find the prospect of another shuttle assignment a bit too scary. A member of the commission that investigated the disaster, Ride declared in March that the shuttle was unsafe and that she would not board it again. Currently riding a desk at NASA, she said last week that she was ready...
...right man for the job, Lange says, partly because "he really likes women. He enjoys their energy." The three actresses, each of whom has won an Academy Award, did not know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five-year-old daughter Shura, whose father is Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Spacek moved into a house with her husband Jack Fisk and their three-year-old daughter Schuyler. Keaton has a house...
...Karen A. Shepard...
...surviving original Mercury astronauts would be reunited at a gala Los Angeles dinner, and workers at the Kennedy Space Center would gather for a ceremony. At both events, speakers would celebrate the 25th anniversary of American manned space flight and chronicle the quarter-century of achievements since Alan Shepard's historic suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. After Challenger's seven crew members perished on Jan. 28, plans for a more somber observance continued; a reminder of past successes might restore NASA's morale...
Basinger, whose performance with Sam Shepard in his and Robert Altman's Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...