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...lecture in Science A-17. "The Astronomical Perspective," Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science Owen J. Gingerich spent about 40 minutes attempting to explain the principles of escape velocity. But unlike most teachers, who would present the facts and chart out the numbers on the blackboard, Ginegerich felt he had to Illustrate the topic of the day. So he concluded his lecture by zooming out of Science Center D aboard a homemade rocket...
...General James Abrahamson, a tall, slim officer who made his name by helping to develop the lean and mean F-16 fighter jet in the 1970s. Abrahamson's office, in a drab rented building two blocks from the White House, is dominated by a large conference table and a blackboard on which he constantly chalks diagrams. Budgeted at $1.4 billion in the current year, the SDI is scheduled to spend some $26 billion over five years. There are fewer than 100 full-time staffers; most of the funds go for research projects assigned to private firms or federal facilities...
...What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...
...Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than that of Texas, than that of Florida. He explained migratory patterns, different woods, paints, patterns of feathers, and as his listeners took notes, he threw in a little about the Cajun way of life...
...aspiration to be all things to all members of its constituency. Sometimes it is a sardonic assault on institutional idiocy, something Director Arthur Hiller once managed pretty well in The Hospital. Sometimes it is a sentimental plea for humanistic faculty-student relationships, sometimes a romantic comedy and sometimes The Blackboard Jungle revisited. Mostly, however, it is a mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their...