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Despite its shortcomings, the program gave a long, detailed close-up of the Russian, his face alternately basking as if in sunlight and marinating in some quick-starting annoyance. Sipping his favorite Georgian mineral water or brooding while the interpreter did his work, K. sat impassively, his round head filling the TV screen and looking like an oversized bead in a gun sight. What Susskind later described as Khrushchev's "physical amiability" was constantly evident, as he nudged, elbowed, fingered his squirming interviewer...
What is most rewarding and least nine-teenish about A Taste of Honey is its un-histrionic realism, which blinks at nothing but can be wry as well as harsh, can use sunlight to make soot the more visible, and can blend a knack for theater with a sense of truth. With its misfits and misfortunes, all too much of the play could have turned sentimental; only here and there is it a little so. Even more, it could have turned sensational, but bold black words like Illegitimacy and Homosexuality and Miscegenation boil down into what is in the world...
...space is a tough neighborhood for frail balloons. Microscopic meteorites punctured Echo's skin, allowing the gas inside to seep out. Sunlight exerted a slight but persistent pressure. Gradually Echo lost its regular shape; flat places and wrinkles appeared on its shiny surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that...
...keeps its shape is that the forces that tend to shrink or distort it are extremely small. Slater estimates that meteorites nibble away about 1¼ sq. in. of its skin per day. Eventually the sphere may collapse, pushed to a pancake by air drag and pressure of sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching rocket. But a flattish or crumpled shape may continue to serve for years as a good radio reflector, which is the basic job that Echo was sent up to perform...
...Woodward has made only a smidgen of chlorophyll-a.† It is authentic -but it cannot turn water and CO into sugar when exposed to sunlight. This is hardly surprising. In the green leaves of plants, chlorophyll occurs as thin plates stacked up to form laminated disks. This intricate structure and a lot of accessory chemicals seem to be needed for chlorophyll to do its job. But in his achievement, Harvard's Woodward has almost certainly taken a long stride toward explaining photosynthesis-one of nature's innermost and most important secrets...