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Perched in the nose of a Delta rocket, one of the simplest satellites ever built by the U.S. roared off the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week to begin an 8 million-year journey in space. The 2-ft. sphere, placed into a 3,600-mile-high circular orbit, contains no moving parts or electronic equipment and resembles an oversized golf ball. Yet it should provide earthbound geophysicists with a benchmark in the sky that will enable them to measure precisely the rotation rate of the earth and the wobble of its axis, continental drift...
...Snowdons, a legal separation was by far the simplest solution. No appearances in court are necessary; lawyers handle all the details. After two years, British law provides that an uncontested divorce could be granted. A divorce would not imperil Margaret's standing in the succession, her $70,000 annual allowance, or her other royal perquisites-so long as she did not try to remarry. If she did, she would have to renounce any claim to the crown and the titles and privileges that accompany...
...matter how many car crashes or family arrests occur, the atmosphere in Fernwood is torpid. Many of the laughs stem from people's misunderstandings of the simplest things. The real threats come from family and close friends. Mary's kitchen telephone is an instrument of bedevilment. The wonder is that she still picks it up; she has rarely heard any good or even neutral news over it. Many lines, especially in the kitchen scenes, can seem funny and pathetic at once. Informed by a caller of yet another crisis, Mary replies, "I can't talk...
...Perfect. Sometimes SN is awful. Comedian Albert Brooks' taped films were at first a regular feature, but offered only ten minutes of boredom. The Muppets are cloying grotesques. The funniest jokes are the simplest: a land shark who gobbles up apartment dwellers; a parody of Catherine Deneuve's Chanel No. 5 ad which ended with a perfume bottle stuck to Guest Host Candice Bergen's head. A lot depends on the guest hosts who change each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor...
...surprisingly well, and who actually look like the characters they play. He achieved an intimacy rarely possible in staged drama by filming his singers mostly in close-up and bathing them in warm, golden lights that make everybody look very healthy. The language problem is solved in the simplest way: the opera is sung in Swedish, but we can read from the subtitles. It's a rare functional approach. With complete respect and evident love for the Mozart-Schikaneder score, Bergman added dazzling stage sets, high Renaissance costumes and editorial wit, and elicited a daring bawdiness from the text that...