Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sky above Cape Canaveral was clear, except for a few wispy clouds. At 10:50 a.m. last Thursday, the launch order was given for the first test-firing of a Pershing II missile. For 17 hopeful seconds, the flight looked perfect. But before the Pershing had climbed two miles, it started throwing off burning fragments. The missile, 34½ ft. long and 40 in. in diameter, was already disintegrating when an Air Force officer pushed the emergency button to detonate the small explosive charges packed on board. The nose cone, which fell into the Atlantic, carried no nuclear warhead...
With the economy still slumping and interest rates sky high, holes have begun appearing at the State Department, the Treasury and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Meanwhile, policy-making has become a desperate waiting game, with virtually all options for actions ruled out by the principles of Reaganomics, leaving the top advisers little choice but to hope that a brisk recovery will somehow occur. Says Jerry Jordan, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, who resigned early this month, citing family reasons: "You have got to remember that the President himself has set economic policy...
DIED. Kenneth More, 67, veteran British stage and screen actor whose characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified...
...sky is magnificently magenta; it glowers over the forest with flashing threats of lightning. You could count the night stars, the fireflies, the dewdrops, the hairs on a lady mouse's arm. The wisest, oldest owl peers omnisciently from his sepulcher of cobwebs. A clumsy crow trips over his own feet and executes a dazzling arabesque. Genius-IQ rats, escapees from deadly experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), live in an underground palace as glimmering and precise as the Wizard's wonderful Oz. Our heroine, the lady mouse Mrs. Brisby, enlists the rats...
...remind glassy-eyed viewers that the scenes are not simply enlarged reproductions of originals, Director Eytchison shows the cast actually taking their places in the Homer painting while screens of a roiling sea and a tempestuous sky are lowered into place. It is the hit of the show. A mildly didactic narration is supplied by eight-year Veteran Thurl Ravenscroft, who provides off-pageant the voice for television's Tony the Tiger ("Grreeaatt!"). There is a suitably reverent score by Richard Henn, a prolific composer who has scored five feature films...