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...surprise is Hoffman's secret: it is because no one expects him to be adequate that he excels. From the beginning, he has been the Chaplinesque figure who makes progress through a series of falls. In his favorite posture, looking backward, Hoffman recalled his circular route from Los Angeles to New York in a series of interviews with TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey. Hoffman's father was a furniture designer, middle-class and Jewish. His mother was a movie fan and named him after Dustin Farnum, the silent-screen cowboy (his older brother is Ronald, for Colman). The game...
...powdery material emanating from it. He observed that the Sea of Crises was "amazingly smooth as far as the horizon," which was visible on TV screens as a curved line about 325 miles from Apollo's route. One crater in the area, said Anders, "has strange circular cracks patterned around the middle of it." He also called attention to a mare, or sea, with a series of faults across its middle. "They drop down in about three steps to the south...
Savage Sleep lets the reader sit in as a kind of guest analyst at the games the troubled mind plays. Is that ether cone a phallic symbol? What is the significance of those circular patterns that Marks' toughest patient keeps making in her vegetables? Eventually, Marks finds all the answers about his patients and himself. In fact, his only failures result from the meddling of those pompous reactionaries who, according to Brand, run our mental hospitals...
...carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...
Analyzing data at the University of Western Ontario, Geophysicists Lula Mansinha and Douglas Smylie found that the circular path traced by the North Pole between 1957 and 1968 was actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time...