Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane of the Milky Way, an extraordinary position for a magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known generating force, like giant stars or a black hole; those phenomena are too small to account for the size of the magnetic field...
...prom was doing in the middle of the Olympics, or whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving flips and salchows. Rosalynn Sumners skated beautifully, perfectly in the view...
Most Versatile Talent: Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who scored off-Broadway with his dynamo dramas True West and Fool for Love, and on-screen as the sexy incarnation of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff...
Peron in London, is a powerful singer if not a sexual dynamo in Marilyn, a ludicrous, lugubrious bio-opera about Marilyn Monroe. (Doomed movie stars are now the musical rage: a different Monroe show is coming to Broadway next season, and the National Theater is mounting a musical by Marvin Hamlisch based on the life and death of Jean Seberg.) Ben Kingsley, the R.S.C. stalwart who won an Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity...
This punkette is no Olivia Newton-John in spikes. The ingenue, Jackie Mullins, is played by a mysterious little dynamo named Jo Kennedy, who looks strikingly like Princess Di dressed by Bette Midler and has a powerful but musky soprano voice. Her hushed way of speaking is haunting as well. She leaves Ruby Keeler and all the namby-pamby ingenues before her in the dust...