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...roll nightmare of 1970, wherein Co-Directors Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell had a pop star, played by Mick Jagger, swap identities with a hood. Jagger's centerpiece number was a malevolent and mystical barrage of imagery that could be every rock-video director's tapsource and textbook. The movie did not seem so much to impact as simply to implode. The effects can still be seen, 24 hours...
...final electronic indignity came at the end of Young's textbook landing. As the orbiter's nose thudded to rest on its front landing gear, the No. 2 computer shut down again. The following day NASA announced it would not sanction the next shuttle flight, scheduled for Jan. 30, until the computer difficulties are resolved...
...replace these workers. A complex agreement was reached between the University and the unions representing the workers, an agreement which reserved the lion's share of termination pay and job placement assistance to (you guessed it) workers with twenty years or more on the job. It is a textbook case of a big white institution and white-dominated unions agreeing to give preference to seniority privileges over hard-won affirmative action protections...
Harvard had almost all the serious chances to score in the third period. After failing to convert on an early power play, the Crimson produced the game's third tie when right wing Peter Follows worked a textbook give-and-go with left wing Jay North, passing to North on the left side, breaking up the middle, taking the return pass and heating Draper from close range. Wheeler almost scored on a similar play with four minutes left in regulation, but put his shot over the net, so that he could score the game winner in more dramatic fashion...
Unfortunately, Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions does little to relieve this sense of anguish. Barraging the reader with too many unimportant names and dates, the book describes two centuries of U.S. involvement in Central America with the depth of a high school textbook. Although LaFeber outlines and criticizes the major currents behind U.S. policy he offers no escape from the not-so-merry-go-round in Central America at a time when alternatives are needed most...