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...full force of the blast from the shuttle's huge external fuel tank and was nearly obliterated. The upper flight deck, where the commander, Francis Scobee, as well as Astronauts Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka and Judith Resnik were seated, was still partly intact. The Navy's team of 40-odd divers managed to bring to the surface the remains of the crew members. The divers also recovered the shuttle's four flight recorders, which might, despite a six-week soak in salt water, provide valuable data about the disaster. Although NASA had not announced it, within a few days...
...less than total war. The willingness of Reagan to go it alone--to use force unilaterally without the aid and approval of U.S. allies--has made the Navy's floating air bases almost indispensable. Carrier diplomacy is hardly a novel idea; in about half the 250-odd shows of force by the U.S. since World War II, carriers steamed to the scene. But in the past the U.S. has usually been able to rely on its allies to provide forward staging areas for projecting U.S. power. The unwillingness of the French and Spanish to let American F-111s pass through...
Stockman contends that Reagan was not a revolutionary and should never have tried to change the U.S. Government dramatically. That's an odd revelation. Anyone who spent four years as a Congressman should know that Presidents do not win power by planning to discard totally the American past. Ronald Reagan never suggested he intended to dismantle two centuries of American tradition. Nevertheless, the Reagan Administration has brought enough change to Washington to be called a revolution, at least in the patois of journalists...
...odd couplings are at center stage in this still sprightly tale: the long since abandoned marriage of a woman (Uta Hagen) who is fervently modern and a man (Stefan Gierasch) who is scrupulously conformist, and the flirtation between this couple's virginal daughter (Lise Hilboldt) and an amiable young dentist (Victor Garber) who is a seasoned rake and frank fortune hunter. In less imaginative hands, the play would end with the younger man's reforming and the older couple's rediscovering the first fine flush of passion. Shaw indulges no such false hopes. He sketches the destructive powers of jealousy...
...grandiloquent, gestural style. By that measure, You Never Can Tell is a thoroughgoing delight. Hagen can be one of the stage's great ripsnorting viragoes, as she demonstrated last year off-Broadway in the title role of Shaw's Mrs.Warren's Profession. At first it seems a little odd to see her instead as a dithery, warmhearted mother who is preoccupied with her children's welfare, but she brings to the part a serene decency that makes her a believable object of deference from her offspring, if not outright...