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...test-firing countdown had to be pushed back three times last week. First technicians struggled to purge impurities from the fuel-cell pipes, then to replace a faulty electronic module, and finally to wheel a huge service tower away from the launch pad. Explained Launch Director George Page: "This is our very first countdown for the shuttle, and you expect these kinds of problems." Indeed, the shuttle program's problems have become a kind of national headache...
...paintings, from the burning and writhing Sunflowers through the spiky lateen-rigged boats on the Camargue beach at Stes.-Maries; from the bedroom in the Yellow House at Aries to the tiny, dense icon of The Sower, a stubborn black lump distributing flakes of seed under the vast Apollonian wheel of the setting sun. Yet although these images have joined the noble cliches of art history, they can be seen afresh through their relationship with the work of other artists. The service this show does for Van Gogh is to place him in a clear but somewhat unfamiliar cultural context...
...woman who gets to work by bicycle or shanks' mare trails clouds of self-esteem as palpable as the carbon dioxide fumes he has forsworn. Whether he refuses to buy a car at today's prices or simply will not or cannot take the wheel, he can be said to have heeded official pleas to share the ride (though it is someone else who does the actual sharing). Even friends and neighbors, who consent to pick up his groceries, cleaning and the Sunday paper, can be made to feel that they too are camshafting egregious OPEC...
...young I couldn't afford a car, and now that I'm rich I can afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend; he drove the car right into F.F.'s parlor. Thereafter, he took...
...dark, rainy Boston street six years ago, two policemen leaped from their car and ran toward a blue Buick that was about to pull away. Eight or nine shots rang out. A black man slumped over the Buick's steering wheel with fatal wounds in the back of his head and between his shoulder blades. As residents of a nearby public-housing project milled about, James Bowden, 25, was taken to the morgue, another casualty of the war between inner-city Americans and the nation's embattled police. The policemen said that Bowden was suspected of robbing...