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...Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron, to achieve higher energies. Instead of sending nuclear bullets, protons, barreling into a fixed target, the four-mile circular atomic race track was redesigned so that two sets of bullets-protons and their antimatter opposites, antiprotons-raced around it in opposite directions. At two junctures their paths intersected, producing collisions of great violence...
...rare mastery of the Black idiom and a delicate sense of balance in her usage. Chronology, the anathema of many a more seasoned writer, is the building block of the novel. Flashbacks, recollections and some of the finest dream sequences in contemporary fiction, intermingle to make each story strikingly circular, each one returning to a face, a memory, or a symbol that invoked the episode in the first place. At the last, Naylor completes the haunting cycle, bringing together, spiritually or physically or both, the lives of all the women with the life cycle of the street itself...
...inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died in 1976) were cut from the budget. Something is needed here. Elsewhere, Warnecke has created spots of charm, as in the lofty, baroque-style circular staircases...
Next came trouble. Before the artificial heart could be put in place, Dacron connectors had to be sewn onto the ends of the two atria, the aorta and the pulmonary artery. The heart snaps into these grooved, circular connectors in a manner that DeVries says is "like closing Tupperware." However, when he attempted to install the connectors, he found that the tissue around Clark's heart "would tear like tissue paper." Slowly, gingerly, DeVries managed to attach the four cuffs and finally to snap in the Jarvik-7. The device was primed with blood, but DeVries was dissatisfied with...
...town to play before a sold-out Civic Center audience comprised largely of young girls and middle-aged women, brought the chorus on for an encore version of his hit single. "One Voice." The 35 chorus members, attired in red choir robes, danced around the perimeter of the circular, tiered stage while Manilow sang from the elevated middle...