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...researchers cancelled plans to send Jason Jr., a camera-equipped robot inside, fearing that the stern's mangled opening would have snared the remote unit's electrical tether. "Too spooky," Ballard replied when asked how difficult conditions were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explorers Memorialize the Titanic's Dead | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

Thank goodness you're giving Joe Califano an award too. He can can hold the tether to keep Meese from floating away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meese | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...date and that she should trust me," says Imelda, "but a boy can't even come over to my house to talk to me. Not even outside on the steps. My mother says, 'It looks bad, no respect to the house.' " Many boys also find themselves on a short tether. Asked about dating, Vinh tosses two wallet-size photos of girls onto the table. A disapproving stare from his father and Vinh promptly jams them into his pocket. "He's the one I worry about," says Le Giau. "Girls call him a lot. I have to cut off the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Caught Between Two Worlds for Children, | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...Even though still attached by the thin tether, the astronauts can release their handholds and drift free, out of reach of the orbiter's gunwales. They can literally become human satellites, a thought that is both thrilling and somewhat sobering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Knocking On Heaven's Gate | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Mephisto. An actor in search of a role sells his soul to the Nazis in order to obtain it. In István Szabo's unbalancing and brilliant study of a theatrical mind at the end of its tether, Klaus Maria Brandauer gives a great performance as a man too innocent about his own ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The BEST OF 1982: Cinema | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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