Word: lyne
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...team of three astronomers in Britain claims to have spotted solid evidence of a faraway world. Writing in the British journal Nature, Andrew Lyne and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank radio observatory report an object between 10 and 15 times the mass of the earth, orbiting a special kind of star called a pulsar that lies some 25,000 light- years (140 quadrillion miles) away...
...anomaly in these pulses that led the Manchester astronomers to focus on one particular pulsar -- and convinced them that a planet whirled around it. The pulsar spins on its axis three times a second, raking the earth with a beam of radio waves each time. But, says Lyne, periodically "the pulses would arrive about one- hundredth of a second earlier than they should, and then, three months later, they would be one-hundredth of a second later...
...theory appears to be sound, but, notes David Black, director of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute, the history of astronomy is "littered with the bones of claimed detections." Lyne admits that other phenomena might be causing the observed deviations in the radio waves, but "the most likely interpretation," he maintains, "is that there is a planet there." Many other experts think Lyne is right. "Now that we see it," said Ramesh Narayan, a Harvard astronomer, "it is up to us to explain how it could happen...
JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife, we are reminded of Ghost (another effort by the same screenwriter, Bruce Joel Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades in a single dreadful and hysterical movie. This may be of interest to film students, who can learn from Jacob's Ladder everything they need to know about how not to make a movie. But ordinary audiences are advised to pass...