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...star rises suddenly above one billion degrees, and strange reactions take place in its tortured center. Vast numbers of tiny particles called neutrinos escape into space, and powerful gamma rays turn energy into matter. Both these processes sop up so much energy that the great star suddenly collapses, exploding inward like a shattered TV picture tube. And as the great star's material starts to fall toward its center, gravitation pulls the stuff along so strongly that its speed quickly approaches the speed of light, which astronomers call respectfully "the relativistic limit," that cannot be exceeded...
...these clerics note that since the church-going boom ended, the nation's great religious bodies have begun to face up to realities. Many pastors believe that their churches will be more relevant, and accomplish more good, with a committed core of true believers. "The church is moving inward," says Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of Austin's University Baptist Church. "There are a great many experiments, little trailblazers, to rediscover the reality that lies beneath the outward structure...
When Barbra Streisand talks, she gets lost in the trackless deserts of her burgeoning vocabulary. "Creativity is like a part of perversion," she will begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
Nelson dribbles, splatters, dabs, and does other such things that most other abstract artists do to express their most inward thoughts--the thoughts, apparently, of blubbering babes. Yet Nelson conveys a meaning in his pictures, and a meaning far more complex than mere chaos and confusion...
...part of Europe; with formal economic and political ties to the Continent, Macmillan is convinced that the nation will not only provide an expanding market for Commonwealth goods but also, by the very nature of its Commonwealth ties, ensure that the new Europe will not develop into the illiberal, inward-looking community that many of the critics fear...