Word: statics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recurrence of an old ailment: during lift-off it lost several dozen heat-shielding tiles. As Columbia whirled 150 miles above the earth, still other things began to go wrong-two television cameras failed, the $1.2 million toilet clogged, a latch on the cargo-bay doors temporarily jammed, mysterious static rang in the astronauts' ears, and a teleprinter spilled paper wildly. The most serious failure came when gremlins knocked out some of the shuttle's radio links, briefly raising fears that there might be a premature halt to the mission...
...industry can lose 25% of its funds and continue to operate at the same level," he says. This means fewer funds to produce or import expensive programs like Brideshead Revisited, Life on Earth and the National Geographic special The Sharks-shows that have brought PBS fresh prestige, ec static reviews and record-breaking ratings. The pool of shows that will attract audiences (and potential subscribers) looks to be drying up just when PBS is be coming a habit for millions of new viewers. "Our audiences have never been greater, and our programs have never been better," claims Christensen...
Manager Peter Riley admits that D'Oyly Carte must modernize if it is to be revived, although any tinkering with tradition has always brought roars from the faithful. The "company's productions in recent years have seemed static, preserved in amber, cluttered with the gestures and mannerisms of venerated ghosts. There has been too much reverent looking backward to the epochal moment in 1875 when Richard D'Oyly Carte induced the highly successful playwright William Schwenck Gilbert to write the libretto that became...
...Jews in a seedy part of Venice. The play attempts to examine not only what it means to be Jewish in America, but what it means to be old. It is an ambitious undertaking, clearly too large for Playwright Suzanne Grossmann, whose script is lachrymose and, in the end, static. Still, the production itself is impeccable, and the cast proves again that one thing Los Angeles is not lacking is superb actors...
Eliminating the current free-choice policy will not make the Houses indistinguishable; differences in location, facilities, personnel and the individuals living there at any given time will lend each a unique but not static personality. At the same time, diversity within the Houses will afford some hope of increased contact among groups that all too often insultate themselves. It is that type of diversity--that which encourages intergroup mingling and not separatism--that the College should encourage...