Word: tinkertoy
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...AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable cog in the powerful engine that is 60 Minutes, she was no Tinkertoy either...
What happens to TV's Tinkertoy remains to be seen. When it was first launched six years ago, USA Today the newspaper was denounced as a multi-million dollar example of arrogance...
Headroom the movie was a witty techno-fantasy with so-so acting and great special effects. Headroom the book has color film stills and the "novelized" story, but this is a weak substitute for the original movie, particularly when burdened by the tinkertoy style of writer Steve Roberts. Still, the stills are handsome enough, and if you just can't get enough of Headroom's electro-magnetic looks, this book might tide you over until you can hook up to his cable talk-show...
...tragedy has its root, after all, and usually the root is of a loving origin. America did not grieve over the destruction of a $1.2 billion tinkertoy, nor did it deign to inappropriately question the uncontested brilliance of the men and women of NASA. America found agony in the immolation of seven remarkable individuals. Who had families just like ours. And dreams every bit as heroic. And the fatal duty of playing pioneer to a frontier no more or less forgiving than the ones we face every day of our lives...
...next logical step": a permanent manned space station. Still on the drawing boards, the space station would house half a dozen people for three-to six-month shifts in roomy shirtsleeve comfort. Weighing some 180,000 Ibs., it would have to be erected in space like a giant Tinkertoy, using some of the techniques demonstrated by Astronauts Allen and Gardner last week. The Administration puts the space station's cost at $8 billion, a figure that may be grossly underestimated...