Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics' Voices gives writers "a chance to say something they don't have space to say elsewhere in the magazine," notes senior editor Thomas Sancton. Most theater items, for example, are in addition to reviews that appear in the Theater section. The page also lets us expand conventional notions of "culture" by including such pastimes as circuses and sporting events. Says Sancton: "We don't want to be limited to traditional categories...
Assembling this critical gallimaufry is the task of reporter-researcher Andrea Sachs. An attorney turned journalist who joined TIME in 1984, Sachs says her legal training "helps me to negotiate the little problems that come up." The hardest: squeezing opinions to fit into the highly compressed space. Not surprisingly, Sachs has found critics to be "the most opinionated and creative people you'd ever want to meet. They care so much about their stories that they are ready to go to war over the change of a comma...
...CARDINAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Author Tom Clancy fancies himself as something more than a superselling novelist. He jumped at Vice President Dan Quayle's offer in April to become an unpaid consultant to the National Space Council, which Quayle heads. But the deal seems doomed. One problem: Clancy wants a full-time role in shaping policy, while Quayle is looking for a celebrity space booster. A bigger obstacle may be the law requiring officials with access to classified information to let Government censors peek at their manuscripts before publication. How could they be persuaded that those details of weapons...
...greatest benefits of the Apollo space program was the image in the rearview mirror as the astronauts rocketed to the moon. It was the first time earthlings could see their home as a whole, and NASA's pictures said with stunning force what neither words nor theories could adequately convey: life has radically transformed this numinous sphere. The heart-stopping beauty of the earth set against the dark void of space earned inventor-scientist James Lovelock the first adherents to a theory that appears to reconcile science and religion in the study of life on earth. Lovelock's idea, named...
...Dawkins argues that earth cannot be considered an organism because it does not reproduce. Gaian proponents respond that the increase of oxygen in the atmosphere was slow enough to allow the mix of life- forms to adjust, and physician-author Lewis Thomas answers Dawkins by coyly suggesting that, through space exploration, mankind may be acting as an inadvertent disseminator of earth's spore...