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...Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in a Love Story with wheelchair called The Affair. There were also obvious borrowings from Hollywood hits-among the recent ones: several mini-Poseidon adventures with oddly assorted casts trapped in runaway trains and stalled elevators and even an elegiac western whose gimmick was readily apparent from the title, Mrs. Sundance...
...young British theorist, Stephen Hawking, speculated that mini-black holes may also exist. According to his theory, during the first chaotic moments of the Big Bang (the great explosion that is believed to have created the universe 10 to 15 billion years ago), some pockets of matter may have been forced to contract rather than expand...
Science fiction? Wood and his colleagues concede that scientists may never be able to find-or tame-mini-black holes. But they feel that the potential payoff surely justifies the attempt...
Harnessed high above the earth, where it would produce no thermal, chemical or radioactive pollution, a single mini-black hole could fulfill all of mankind's power needs for the foreseeable future...
While other songwriters are heading for country creeks and watermelon vines, Springsteen celebrates urban lowlife. His songs are ambitious mini-operas populated by punk saints and Go-Kart Mozarts in scenarios laced with schmalz and violence. His territory: the streets of Harlem, tenements, the funky world of the boardwalk's pinball way with its dusty arcades and machines. Bursting with words, images rush along in cinematic streams of consciousness...