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...takeover attempt is in character for a man who has always been somewhat larger than life. Turner was forced out of his Brown University fraternity for burning down the homecoming display, and finally left the school after being suspended twice. He entered the family billboard business at 24, after his father committed suicide. Turner was so successful in his advertising venture that he was able to acquire and enlarge a foundering local UHF television station. In 1976 he started bouncing its signals off a satellite to cable-TV systems across the U.S. The result: Super-Station WTBS, which now reaches...
From the very start, the mission seemed to have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7˝-ton cylinder...
...Government, though, would go on functioning, and somewhat more smoothly than in similar past crises. As his last official act before being wheeled into the operating room, Reagan at 10:32 a.m. Saturday signed letters authorizing Vice President George Bush to "discharge powers and duties in my stead commencing with the administration of anesthesia," which began 1 hr. 16 min. later. Though Reagan injected some caveats about the application of the 25th Amendment, the message marked the first official transfer of power from a President to his Vice President in the nation's history. Even after he reassumed his official...
Boas portrays Bearing’s intensity and anguish, stressing the hostile, hubristic, and threatened side of her personality, a choice that is in keeping with the script but also somewhat alienating for audiences. Her medical counterparts, Dr. Kelekian (John D. Boller) and Dr. Posner (Lenny M. Braman, HLS ’05) are brisk and impersonal. Posner is slightly warmer than Bearing yet less self-aware; unlike Bearing, has no idea that he should be more sympathetic, even as he describes his patient as “very unresponsive” on a clipboard before realizing that said patient...
...rich in intellectual exercises, inviting the viewer to pick up a highlighter and compare its structure to that of a sonnet by Donne, but these puzzles are more interesting than the somewhat simplistic questions of philosophy or the realistic but unsympathetic and slightly flat characters. In fact, audience members are more likely to come out of this play inspired to pick up a book of poetry than to be kinder to their fellow man: a result, perhaps, that Vivian Bearing would approve...