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...belittle the mission in a quote to U.P.I.: "The Voyager is old technology. It's not a breakthrough.") Voyager began, as have so many fine notions, as a hurried sketch on a paper napkin. Five years ago the three were sitting in a greasy spoon in Mojave, Calif., when Burt Rutan turned to his brother and asked, "How would you like to be the first person to fly around the world without stopping to refuel?" The idea seized the test pilot. Burt dashed off a rudimentary drawing of a flying fuel tank -- which is precisely what Voyager is -- and they...
...behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...Mary Bobo's carrot casserole, a concoction made with Ritz crackers and melted cheese. It should be noted that the Sterns and Fussell give quite different recipes for New Orleans red beans and rice, yet both are credited to Buster Holmes, operator of the famous French Quarter greasy spoon. Quite possibly the old master cook never makes that dish the same way twice, which is why there probably cannot be, as the Sterns suggest, a last word on the subject...
...long-running production titled Cecil Beaton!, with sets, costumes, lighting, direction and dialogue by the author. No epitaph by friend or critic could equal the one he ad-libbed for himself when a journalist reminded him that he had not been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. True, Beaton acknowledged. Then he added the irrefutable punch line that summed up a life: "But I managed to put it there...
...Vigeland's classmates did after graduating, moves through a long account of a sappy conversation with Robert "Children of Crisis" Coles, describes in soporific detail the schedule for the 25th reunion and the differences between the Red, Green and Grape groups, and shamelessly repeats gag-me-with-a-spoon comments like: "For reasons one can't understand, something goes out of here and affects a person, generates some pride and gratitude, generates a gift..."--and that from David A. Aloian '49, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...