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THIS WINDY, CINEMATIC SPY NOVEL RElies shamelessly on quick cuts and spectacular scenery, and never mind logic. Anthony Hyde's CHINA LAKE (Knopf; $22) takes its title from a secret Naval Intelligence station in the Mojave Desert, where a 25-year-old mystery -- Who gave the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile to the Soviets? -- has never been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light...
...bulk of the pressurized suits makes physical activity extremely awkward and quickly exhausting. Astronauts have found that their hands chafe sorely, particularly the fingertips, which can be rubbed so raw that the deltas, whorls and ridges of their fingerprints disappear. But the Endeavour crew accomplished its spectacular mission and, just for the record, completed a fourth jaunt in space before preparing for their scheduled return home...
...calm the populace. Maybe he wanted to give the anchors a chance to repair their hairdos. Or maybe he just wanted to make at least one pair of them shut up for an hour. And shut out the edgy shrillness that kept creeping into their voices. Shut down the spectacular, but profoundly disinformative, helicopter shots of burning buildings. Shut off the correspondents standing on disarrayed street corners, describing what had happened there or might soon be going to happen there -- and, oh, in the meantime, how about some more pictures of the looters going brazenly about their business...
...years he tried other stories. Nothing worked. The one musical he finished, Romance in Hard Times -- about a mystical pregnancy and a Depression soup kitchen -- ran briefly off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Says Finn: "The show wasn't perfect, but parts were brilliant. The score was spectacular." The reviews were so bad that he was relieved he had jury duty after it opened: "I figured that if I were in the courthouse I wouldn't actually commit suicide...
This month, many years and millions of dollars later, that effort culminated in a spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean...