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...star. The astronomers point out that another supernova, the one that created the familiar Crab Nebula and its pulsar, was witnessed by the Chinese in A.D. 1054 and was well documented in their records. The same event was seen in North America and recorded at the same time in cave and cliff drawings found in northern Arizona...
...pulsar. The sudden and brief appearance at that time of what seemed to be a new and brightly glowing star-probably as luminous as a quarter moon and visible even during full daylight-may have sufficiently moved a primitive sky-gazer to scrawl or carve his impressions on a cave wall. And if an archaeologist should ever find such a drawing, its age could be determined by using radioactive "clocks" and other dating methods on other objects at the site. Once that was done, scientists would know more precisely the time of Gum's celestial spectacular...
...dipping a finger in the bowl of a sacrificed victim's blood--a documentary made by time-traveling anthropologists. Magic has its place in this society, but the common people are close to the land, to nature. The landscapes--mountains and deserts, blazing skies, sun-baked cliffs riddled with cave-dwellings--surround Medea until she returns with Jason to Corinth. Much time is spent in movement across the countryside--walking, sitting in horsecarts, pacing and filing in ritual order. The omnipresence of the land, and later, Medea's enclosure in palaces, rooms, buildings, gives much more of a feeling...
According to one legend, the art of painting was invented by a Greek potter's daughter, who traced the shadow of her swain's profile by candlelight on a cave wall. In the centuries since then, the opposite view of sexual roles in art has prevailed-namely, that the heights of creation are inaccessible to women, whose misfortune it is to possess something called a "feminine sensibility." This is largely a fantasy, akin to the one found in literature (see BOOKS). But every woman artist at work today still has to contend with...
Bloody Tuesday stiffened Parliament's resolve not to cave in to the terrorists. By a coincidence of the judicial calendar, the Northern Ireland High Court last week found against the British Army on a fine legal point concerning its security role in Ulster. On the same day, the Heath government rushed through a bill retroactively legitimizing everything the Army had done as keeper of the Ulster non-peace; the only dissenting voice was that of Bernadette Devlin...