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...scarecrow of a man stumbles up to three children playing at the edge of a mid-19th century Australian frontier settlement and stutters, ''Do not shoot. I am a B-b-british object.'' The most bumptious of the young group marches the frightened visitor home, where he is taken in as a stray. Speaking English as a forgotten language, he explains that his name is Gemmy Fairley, that he was a cabin boy shipwrecked off Queensland and raised by what today would be called Native Australians. ''Blacks,'' the fearful pioneers call them. If readers on the other side...
...George Gershwin's work as coming not from ''an American network but from the BBC'' ((REVIEWS, Oct. 4)). Some readers may think this implies that the BBC made it. Although the BBC was a marvelous co-producer and provided the state-of-the-art digital equipment for our shoot, the Gershwin family entrusted the television production of what is possibly America's greatest opera to three Englishmen: Trevor Nunn, Greg Smith and me. It was an honor...
...overlooked during the past two years by trend watchers who were more interested in the way they dressed and the Seattle scene they came from. Style mavens fixed upon the thrift-shop wardrobe of flannel shirts and torn corduroy jackets, dubbing it the grunge look. For a fashion shoot, Vanity Fair dressed Manhattan socialites and celebrities in flannel and denim. All this exploitation made the term grunge deeply unfashionable among American youth, but bands like Pearl Jam have shaken off the label, becoming better known for their music than their baggy shorts...
...hidden camera to record man-in-the-street reaction to Kirk's glowing wine-red suit or Spock's white robe and ear- covering headband. Just didn't seem strange enough to stand out in the city by the bay. ''One lady even approached me after watching the shoot,'' reports Leonard Nimoy (Spock), ''and said, 'I thought you were a monk or a priest.' '' In the latest, $23 million installment of the TV-turned-movie series, slated for December release, the whole Enterprise gang, led by William Shatner, journeys back in time 300 years to Starfleet's first home base...
...rising Soviet missile. But Ashton Carter of Harvard, an SDI skeptic, points out that such sensors and gun pods would be vulnerable: ''Hovering a couple of hundred kilometers over enemy territory is a very uncomfortable place to operate.'' In fact, the entire SDI apparatus for boost- phase sensing and shoot-down would have to be predeployed in space and would therefore be extremely susceptible to a pre-emptive enemy attack. ''It is easier to destroy the space-based components of a strategic defense system,'' says former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, ''than it is to destroy the ballistic missiles...