Word: starlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Andrew Lloyd Webber, 36, British pop composer (Cats, Evita); and Sarah Brightman, 23, dancer; both for the second time; in Kingsclere, Hampshire, England. They then sped back to London as husband and wife to meet the Queen at a preview of Webber's new musical, Starlight Express...
Anticipation crests into loss, an everpresent prod to characters like Elaine in Marian Thurm's Starlight, who has wistful memories of her children's freshly washed and pajamaed bodies...
That basic serenity, though muddled in Wasp, retains for this latest book its strongest quality to confront starlight on the larger questions of morality and the universe. The most interesting dilemma posed and indeed and the only one carried through consistently, is the crisis of faith among the cathedral's staff in the face of terror and bereavement. At a party, someone brings up "a tidbit from seminary training. "a quotation from George Orwell...
...August night, when the sky seemed clearer and the starlight stronger, Steven felt himself drawn to his family's two-car garage. There, gleaming in a forgotten corner, was an old piece of machinery he had never noticed before: an 8-mm movie camera. He picked up the camera, turned around, and what do you think he saw? Yes, it was a beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed...
Still another experiment involves Voyager 2's photopolarimeter, a light-measuring device that failed on the first flight.. As the spacecraft approaches the planet, the instrument will be aimed through the rings at Delta Scorpii, a far-off star. By measuring disruptions (or blinking) of the starlight caused by the intervening ring material, the scientists should get the most precise data yet on the number of rings, their density and width and the size of the stuff they are made...