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...back after getting extra sleep and rearranging their work schedule. Their biggest challenge was operating a Canadian-built, remote-controlled arm that reached 50 ft. outside the shuttle. When the TV camera at the far end of the arm malfunctioned, the astronauts skillfully used binoculars to guide the giant limb, even getting it to lift an experimental package out of Columbia 's cavernous cargo bay. They also maneuvered the ship so different parts faced the sun, exposing them to temperatures as high...
Paul Schrader is the kind of director who leaves no bra unhooked, no limb untorn from its socket in his pursuit of what he believes to be the true and terrible image. Cat People is clearly the work of a solemn literalist (and a man with a taste for perverse ritual), not that of a cynic or a sensationalist. But motive makes small difference in the end result. The film best serves the values of the dimmest lurker in the deepest shadows of the grind house: it has lots of nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore...
...about 7.5 million bbl. per day, to 5 million bbl. But the House of Saud cannot go below 6.2 million bbl. per day without dipping into capital reserves to finance a variety of ambitious construction and industrialization plans. The Saudis are also reluctant to step out on a limb within OPEC. Says Lawrence Goldstein, research director of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "If the Saudis cut, they have to have some indication that the rest of the organization will not simply make up the reduction in volume and take away the market share...
Princeton and Brown are the only other Ivy League schools that are doing better than Harvard. Princeton's Betty Limb finished second in the 200-yard freestyle, and Brown sophomore Elaine Palmer won the 100-yard backstroke. Palmer is a Cambridge product of Harvard swim Coach Joe Bernal's Gator team...
...COURSE, some people are naturally conservative they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...