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Darlene, a captain in the Maryland Army National Guard, runs a tight ship. "Homework is when they come in the door," she insists. "They see nothing, do nothing, until homework is done, and the saxophone is part of that requirement." Donny seems to relish this kind of structure and has a firm grasp on his complicated schedule of sports practices, music lessons, church classes and other commitments. He isn't one to procrastinate: his basketball coach and music teacher marvel at Donny's enthusiasm, even for repetitive drills and scales. "It's such an insight for kids to know...
...They are vessels that you walk into," says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from...
...stunning book Ship Fever, a collection of moody historical meditations cast as short stories, the author of this powerful, brooding novel sets up camp in the mid-19th century and forages for the bones of fiction. She picks an obsession--the search in the high Arctic for a northwest passage to the Pacific--that now seems bizarre. Ships were crushed. Men died of scurvy, watched by healthy Inuit tribesmen who were scorned as beasts. Ill-fated expeditions followed, intent on rescue, science or glory. One of these is Barrett's stage, on which two sharply opposed men, a bookish naturalist...
...four 90-minute episodes, this documentary attempts to tell the story of slavery from 1619, when a ship carrying a cargo of Africans arrived at Jamestown, to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The material is inherently fascinating, and overall the producers have done a fine job of presenting it, combining historical images, impressionistic re-enactments, interviews with historians and voice-over readings of letters and diaries (the narration is spoken by Angela Bassett). If there's a quibble, it's that the re-enactments, done in soft-focus and slow motion, are overused, and one wishes...
...goes as planned, Deep Space 1, scheduled for launch later this month, will be the forerunner of a new generation of spacecraft. While flight planners hope the ship will make some interesting observations about the target asteroid, including its composition and the structure of its surface, DS1's prime assignment is to validate a host of new technologies NASA had always considered too risky to try on a high-profile mission. Says Marc Rayman of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DS1's chief engineer: "We have an unproven propulsion system, powered by an unproven solar array, commanded by an unproven navigation system...