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After four years of talk, city officials confirmed last week that they plan finally to take by eminent domain a Harvard-owned field on Sacramento St. slated by the University for junior faculty housing...
...discomfited to learn that his spot exists always in twilight. His pleasure is threatened only by Irene, a woman his age and equally rootless, who discovered this world years earlier and tries to bar him from it. She has already been living a double life, has explored the mysterious domain called Tembreabrezi and knows that the residents of Mountain Town are threatened by an evil force that they will not name...
Acting unanimously, the council voted to take by eminent domain a small parcel of land directly across from Legal Seafoods, which was gutted by fire a week...
...more likely, though, that the arts appeared less experimental because in each case the mainstream adopted and popularized what had previously been the domain of the avant-garde, while the fringe groups, the repertory theaters, independent film studios and artists' colonies where experimentation traditionally takes place, failed to innovate upon the increasing scale of outlandishness to which we had become accustomed. Off-Broadway became almost as conventional as the Great White Way itself, and nearly as expensive, so much so that a new term and class of theater, "Off-Off-Broadway," emerged. Save for disco, popular music spawned nothing...
Within the past decade, observations of x-rays from a handful of small regions within our Milky Way suggest that matter is being pulled into warped regions of space where gravity is almost unimaginably powerful. Such a regions not really an object, as much as a hole--a spatial domain from which neither visible nor invisible radiation can escape. It seems that the guts of black holes are unexplorable. But matter falling into such weird regions can, and apparently does, emit radiation just before being swallowed, perhaps forever...