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...time Skylab reached orbit, NASA controllers were sure that it was in trouble. As the 85-ton spacecraft began circling the earth, it jettisoned its protective shroud, moved its telescope mount into place and unfolded the four windmill-like solar wings that sit above it. But indications were that the remaining solar wing on the Orbital Workshop could not swing out more than a few degrees from the ship and was thus not able to unfold its light-gathering panels. That was bad news indeed. It meant that Skylab was deprived of more than half its electrical power. Even...
...Psycho, as does a splendid, spooky score by that film's masterful composer, Bernard Herrmann. More important than these specific references to glories past, however, is the Hitchcockian discipline De Palma brings to his storytelling, the delicate balance between humor and horror with which he permits it to unfold, the suspenseful way he lets the audience in on the plot's secret before his characters tumble...
...Louds sit in fascination to watch the series unfold each Thursday night. It shows an attractive, upper-middle-income family with five children -three boys and two girls-in Santa Barbara, Calif. Many scenes in the six episodes shown so far have reflected mundane aspects of domestic life, but some have been unusual. Pat has visited Son Lance, 20, who has taken up a homosexual life in New York City; a brushfire has nearly destroyed the family's four-bedroom home; the antagonism between Pat and Bill has become obvious. Bill comes across as a charming gladhander, while...
...HARD-HEARTEDNESS of the characters increasingly manifests itself, strange scenes unfold. Lenny is now so possessed by his ambition to capture Kelly that he'll ruthlessly resort to the most outrageous sycophancy. At the Corcoran dinner table, for instance, he comments on the meal in tones reminiscent of Nixon courting the farm vote: "Now this is honest food... There's no lying in that beef... no insincerity in those potatoes ... no deceit in that cauliflower...
Since no soap opera is complete without anguish, the Loud family has its troubles. Eldest son Lance has migrated to New York to join the gay community. As the twelve episodes of Family unfold on the TV screen, Bill's business runs into serious financial problems. Finally, toward the middle of the series, Pat and Bill decide to get a divorce...