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Hate him or love him (and some do, since the man has real charm), there is no escaping Rupert Murdoch these days in popular entertainment and journalism. At 61, the chairman of News Corp., who is now a naturalized American, stands out as one of the world's pre-eminent media barons. Through a bewildering mesh of subsidiaries, he controls an $8.5 billion communications empire that includes newspapers and magazines in Britain, the U.S. and Australia, the Fox . TV network and movie studio, plus a powerful satellite that beams video programming throughout the British Isles. Like Johnny Rocco, the mobster...
...absent jewel in the crown of the so-called Standard Model, a powerful theoretical synthesis that has reduced a once bewildering zoo of particles to just a few fundamental constituents, including three whimsically named couplets of quarks. Up and down quarks combine to create everyday protons and neutrons, while charm and strange quarks make up more esoteric particles, the kind produced by accelerators and high-energy cosmic rays. In 1977 physicists discovered a fifth quark they dubbed bottom, and they have been looking for its partner, top, ever since. Not finding it would amaze and befuddle particle physicists. Without...
That Deadly Charm...
Dispensing anatomical advice with the charm of a Keebler elf, psychologist Ruth Westheimer delivered a rambling lecture to an audience of 100 at Austin Hall last night...
...smooth fury of Our Time in Eden, the spirit of the group -- its distinctive combination of stylistic orneriness and sandblasted lyricism -- remains undiminished. 10,000 Maniacs has always been hard to classify. That's an integral part of the band's charm, and so is the obvious pride with which its members nourish their idiosyncrasy. Still, they have enjoyed a heartening commercial success, which should increase nicely with Our Time in Eden. It sounds like their best album yet. But for a group that exists so safely away from trends, it's the afterlife of the music that counts...