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...woman rises, charged with driving under the influence, a common enough crime, and the murmuring in the back continues. Lawyers walk to the hallway to confer with clients, the assistant district attorneys shuffle papers. The Commonwealth presents, its case, a fairly straightforward one; she couldn't walk the straight line, she couldn't touch her nose, she admitted she was drunk...
Although the conceptual design appears straightforward, the casting of a honeycomb mirror requires considerable technical know-how -- and time. Angel's team tackles the job in their hangar-like mirror lab located, improbably enough, under the stands of the University of Arizona football stadium. In the center of the lab is a huge round furnace. To make a mirror, a complex ceramic mold is assembled inside the furnace and filled with glittering chunks of Pyrex-type glass. Once the furnace lid is sealed, the temperature will slowly ratchet up over a period of several days, at times rising no more...
Among both ordinary voters and political cognoscenti, a great deal of the uneasiness about Clinton reflects his propensity to dance away from straightforward yes or no answers to any character question. He relies instead on legalistic, artfully phrased and heavily nuanced replies that may be technically accurate but also misleading. The resulting belief that he is incurably evasive has probably damaged Clinton far more than any specific issue. It ties in with a not very specific but nonetheless widely felt discomfort about his calculated ambition (he says he has wanted to be President since he was a teenager) and some...
...benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since minor disputes and even neutral exchanges inevitably explode into shouting-matches, threatening to detract even from Wu's thoughtful and truly moving performance...
...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...