Word: compressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with all his histories, Shakespeare takes certain liberties with the actual course of events during King John's reign; he never mentions the Magna Carta, for instance. In trying to compress 30 years into an evening's entertainment, the playwright condenses many battles into slightly dull and strategy-filled second half. Aside from Pearson, the actors in this half seem unaware of the full motivation behind Shakespeare's lines...
...real danger of the vacation lies in its capacity to compress all family conflicts into an exquisitely focused drama. At their most triumphantly awful, family vacations can compete with a Long Day's Journey Into Night or anything else O'Neill wrote. People in their normal working lives have jobs, roles, friends and routines to diffuse and absorb emotions. In the theater of a summer house, family issues 20 years buried are liable to come up thrashing like lobsters. The husband gets drunk and insults his visiting brother, who makes a ghastly effort to climb in bed with...
...traveling by ship from India to England to take up studies at Cambridge in the early 1930s, the young Chandrasekhar came to an astonishing conclusion. His calculations showed that if a star is larger than 1.4 times the mass of the sun when it begins its collapse, it will compress to a state even more dense than that of a white dwarf. How far could the star collapse? In one of the great understatements of modern science, Chandrasekhar would only say: "One is left speculating on other possibilities...
...shape and pulls off large amounts of gases. As the particles of gas spiral inward, or biting the black hole in ever tighter circles before entering the event horizon, they collide, compress and heat up. Temperatures within this so-called accretion disk of gases surrounding the black hole reach 10 million degrees C, sending streams of intense X rays into space...
...future NASA could launch a great fleet of robot spaceships to attract bits of free-floating iron in near by interstellar space, like children herding filings with magnets. Eventually so much matter would be gathered up that ,he particles would begin attracting one another by their mutual gravity and compress themselves into a black hole of some ten solar masses. The purpose of this iron sun? To provide instantaneous transportation across the heavens for anyone brave enough to take the plunge...