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...offered a tenured assistant professorship at the nation's largest engineering school, Texas A.&M. He would have earned roughly $30,000 teaching computer science. But then a Houston computer firm named Intercomp offered Lucido a job with a pay boost of nearly 50%, plus the chance to tinker with half a million dollars worth of computer graphics equipment far newer than anything to be found on campus. Lucido said goodbye to tenure and went to work for Intercomp. He recalls: "I was disillusioned with academe. There was no money for research projects, and I finally decided there...
Relatives and friends insisted that the shooting was accidental. Said TV Producer Grant Tinker, Moore's estranged husband and Meeker's stepfather: "Both Mary and I had talked to him that day. He was never more 'up.' " Said Linda Jason: "I know it wasn't suicide. He was the happiest he's ever been." According to friends at work, Meeker bought the gun to hunt rabbits. Said his father Richard, a TV executive in Sacramento: "He just liked guns. He had them all over the place. It was just one of those things...
...high school late and dabbled briefly in drugs. But friends said that in the past few years he seemed to be on track. Said Janet McLaughlin, 22, another housemate of Meeker's: "Richard wasn't emotionally troubled. He was in love. His job was good." Insisted Grant Tinker: "The movie has absolutely nothing to do with this. There are no parallels." Police were not so certain. They planned several weeks of investigation before attempting to decide whether Meeker killed himself by accident or by design...
Flashing through the heavens like an extraterrestrial Tinker Bell, the spacecraft looks like something by H.G. Wells out of Walt Disney. At the helm is none other than the boy from Brooklyn, now fully grown and, among several other things, a real astronomer. With a nonchalant gesture over his magical controls, he guides the ship on a voyage made possible only by the imagination, with the help of a Hollywood special-effects crew. Into the arms of giant galaxies he goes, through halos of stars, past a blinking pulsar, skirting the edge of a black hole, even reconnoitering a distant...
Mole is a code word for the double agent who has burrowed his way into the heart of the British secret service. As Tinker, Tailor opens, the head of intelligence, known only as Control (Alexander Knox), determines that one of his subordinates has an open line to Moscow. But which one? Enter the redoubtable George Smiley, brought out of retirement. The counterspy is an unlikely hero. He is middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole...