Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh floor of a trim building occupied mainly by Hispanics and blacks. But Berkowitz's apartment was a mess, furnished with little more than a low mattress. The windows were covered by sheets to keep neighbors from seeing in. Pornographic magazines were strewn near the bed. One large hole had been knocked in a wall, with an arrow pointing to it and a puzzling hand-printed message: "Hi. My name is Mr. Williams, and I live in this hole." Also on the wall was another irrational declaration: "I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait...
...latest rage. Cadavers of giant stars far larger than our scrawny sun, they have in effect crushed themselves out of existence after their nuclear fires guttered and died. Only their gravity remains behind, like the Cheshire Cat's mocking grin. No one has yet seen a black hole, since not even a single ray of light can escape the powerful gravitational grasp. But this fact has not deterred imaginative relativity theorists. Refusing to believe that anything can vanish into nothingness, they have argued that when matter drops into a black hole, it may actually be entering a twisting, Einsteinian...
...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...
Berry admits that his first trekkies would not know where they might emerge or if they would ever get back. One possibility: they could construct a parallel black hole at their destination to bring them home. He also seems unconcerned about another hazard: his creation might explode in a supernova, spraying its builders with deadly radiation. Still, the author writes with such refreshing faith in science's ability to conquer all obstacles of time and space that even skeptics may be willing to suspend disbelief and join him in this dazzling armchair journey across the cosmos. Here, at least...
...publisher reads spy thrillers (but can never remember the titles and has found himself rereading them by mistake), shows cowboys-and-Indians flicks on a home projector at Stamford Saturday nights, and generally neglects television. He had to give up golf because of a bad back ("Played one hole last year and had to be carried off in a golf cart"), but still tinkers and putters, and he enjoys browsing in hardware stores. Says Sister Ruth: "His idea of a good time is coming to visit and cleaning my car, then straightening my house." He keeps his desk as uncluttered...