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...good at everything he did, that it didn't take him four hours to write a story," Sorrento says. "He would come in and bang up a breaking story in 30 minutes...
...with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. He charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. Maggie, a photographer, bugs the place, adding sound to his pictures, thereby doubling a misery that in this case does not particularly love company...
...Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. Professorially, he charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. It?s never easy being a spy in the house of love. It?s certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought it could be and all of us in the audience keep hoping it might be. But the movie does find...
What could have produced such a huge outpouring? That's what mystified astrophysicists meeting in Williamsburg, Va., last week. As most college freshmen know, antimatter is unstable stuff. Whenever antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate each other, disappearing in a blast of intense radiation. Thus while the Big Bang probably created almost as much antimatter as matter, virtually all of it, scientists believe, was consumed in a frenzy of annihilation long ago. In today's universe, antimatter must be created anew. And it is--in the form of subatomic particles, at least--in giant particle accelerators on earth...
...feeling as the 20th century winds down? "Convinced of exhaustion, extreme peril, exorbitant risk, explosive transformation." This is historian Hillel Schwartz's description of the fin-de-siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century's End. Schwartz was writing in 1988 and looking forward to a bang-up final decade. Indeed, the 1990s got off to a respectable fin-de-siecle start, what with the Gulf War and the fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Republican revolution. But in the two years since Oklahoma City, the rough edges of the national psyche seem...