Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...only planetary probe now on the drawing boards at J.P.L. is Project Galileo, a scheme to place in orbit around Jupiter a semipermanent observatory. Scheduled for launch in 1984, Galileo is likely to be delayed. Its launch vehicle is the space shuttle. But that much troubled enterprise, plagued by engine problems and difficulties with its crucial heat-shielding, may not make its first orbital test flight before next summer...
...compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak film that is more interesting to analyze than to attend; for the fact is that Bergman has set himself a most formidable artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings, in Bergman's scheme of things, of a dead God. The great director's mood as he contemplates their dance is both clinical and wintry. If he has failed, in the end, to jerk his dolls into a fully convincing imitation of life, one cannot help responding to the bracing demands...
...subcommittee members were not uniformly carried out. Relatively few took place; one subcommittee balked at the idea of visiting colleagues' classrooms," Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education and secretary to the Standing Committee on the Core, wrote in a report earlier this fall. "There was no systematic scheme for reporting back to the Standing Committee," he continued...
...rationalizes away responsibility. Jerry has no guilt over his affair with Emma until it is long-finished, when Emma tells him over a drink that Robert knows. "But he is my best friend," Jerry whines, as if confronting the fact for the first time. By moving the time scheme around Jerry's intellectual castle building, Pinter begs us to consider how differently we would view a scene had he given it to us in chronological order. He forces us to recognize that we are playing similar games in our judgments of the characters, and so demonstrates what every good storyteller...
...lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with his longtime friend and Carter confidant Hamilton Jordan about Vesco's plight. Lee met first with Carter Aide Richard M. Harden, who, claims Lee, persuaded him not to see Jordan. Lee says he then dropped the scheme entirely. After investigating Vesco I for 18 months, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., disbanded without returning any indictments. But Justice Department lawyers, in a memo to Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann, recommended that Harden be further investigated by a special prosecutor; both Lee and Harden were suspected of lying when they...