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...later charged with murder, robbery, kidnaping and other crimes. The victim turned out to be the jewelry store's manager, Hugh Skinner, 64. "The shooting was not accidental," Sheriff Sherman Block explained forthrightly. "The marksman shot this individual, convinced that he was the suspect. It was a tragic...
Challenger had blasted off even though the temperature at the cape was 38 degrees . During the night, a subfreezing cold had chilled the shuttle, and surface winds of 30 m.p.h.. had aggravated the problem. Chunks of ice floated in water tanks laced with antifreeze. Once aloft on its tragic 73-sec. flight, Challenger was assailed by 75-m.p.h. gales, producing, even before the explosion, what one NASA engineer called "an extremely rough ride, maybe the roughest yet." At sea, ships assigned to recover the $25 million boosters were heading for safe harbors as waves broke over their gunwales...
...apartheid. We have declared our readiness to remove apartheid, to share power up to the highest level of government. We did not undertake these changes to please the outside world. We undertook these reform measures because we believed that we must extend democracy. It is one of the most tragic phenomena of history. At a time when this government is extending democracy and can demonstrate that we took steps in one year that the U.S. could not take in 20 years, not only do we get no credit for it, not only do you Americans have no perspective of history...
...think I realized my tragic error somewhere among this tenured lunatic's aforementioned and subsequent rantings. You're wrong. I realized it after he finished his last poem--something about watching his cat eat a slug--and the people around me gave him a standing ovation...
Director Brian Backus has attacked Edmund Rostand's classic tragicomedy with a battleaxe, only he seems to hit the wrong parts, at least for this production. Blessed with a cast stronger in comic than tragic talents, Backus unwisely cuts the hilarious first act and plays down much of the humor in favor of the tragic, or in this case, bathetic parts. Alex Roe's Cyrano is the major casualty of this approach, though, to be fair, some of his wounds are self-inflicted. He seems to drone endlessly, eyes glazed and fingers fidgeting, in a voice that ought to earn...