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...rule was a "pain in the ass" for Joe. "It was something I was prepared for--provided the freshman program was at least competitive--and it wasn't. I am no better now than I was when I left high school, and I should be a quantum leap better...
Sportswriters spring to cover player-salary stories because those stories are unprecedented and sensational. They sell papers. Club owners then leap in with calculated news leaks and bleatings of poverty. In a few months we may read reams about Johnny Bench's salary demands and nothing about the Cincinnati Reds' operating profits. The Bench story will be simple and direct. The Reds' ledgers, if they were available, would probably make sense mostly to C.P.A.s. News judgment, not corruption, is at issue. The Bench negotiation is news...
Silverman lavishes care and energy on casting his characters. Watching tests, he will say, "I hate her, she's terrible. Roll ?next, next!" Or he will leap from his chair and shout, "That's her!" In his eyes, characters do not even have to be human. He will spend just as much time listening to a shark's voice for a children's cartoon as he will in discussing stars for a big-budget show in prime time...
...dream of making space a routine human habitat took a dramatic leap toward reality last week. Like a fledgling leaving the nest for the first time, NASA's new space shuttle OV (for Orbiter Vehicle) 101 cut loose from the 747 mother ship and maneuvered safely to earth on its own. As NASA officials-and much of the nation via television-watched with ringers crossed, the shuttle, christened Enterprise after the spaceship in Star Trek, swooped in graceful arcs down through the clear desert air over Edwards Air Force Base in California. Then, as if both ship and crew...
British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...