Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time of year." Squelching down the hillside behind her house, she point out the day lilies and ferns pushing up through the puddles and picks wild leeks for breakfast soup. An intense aesthetic response to mud is characteristic of Vermonters. In Montpelier's Horn of the Moon Cafe, a superannuated hippie explains, "Mud is, like, very natural. . . you know, like earth ... it, like, binds us together here in Vermont...
...existence was predicted in 1931 by British Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac, and scientists have been looking for it ever since-on the ocean floor, in meteorites, Arctic ice and even moon rocks. Dirac, one of the fathers of quantum theory, said that magnetic particles might exist that are exclusively "north" or "south." Recent developments in quantum theory suggest that these single-poled units, or "monopoles," would have immense mass, about 10 million billion times that of a proton at rest. Placed on a table, a monopole would prove so heavy in relation to its size that it would fall through...
When our anti-hero appeared in Mad Max, he was an amoral vigilante with baby fat. Since then, Gallipoli has made Gibson an international star: he is more mature and authoritative; his moon face is cratered with character. In 1979, when Mad Max was released, George Miller was a 34-year-old M.D. who had edited his first feature on a kitchen table. Max surprised with its cinematic canniness, but Warrior astounds as a sequel superior in every respect. Miller suggests violence; he does not exploit it. He throws the viewer off-balance by mixing the ricochet rhythms...
...what one cannot know is essential to one's wellbeing. This offers a sense of proportion, and so is thoroughly antiromantic. Yet it is not cold 18th century rationalistic either. The computer simply provides a way of drawing a line between the knowable and the unknowable, between the moon and the moon in man, and it is on that line where people may be able to see their actual size...
...Minnesota law that requires religious organizations drawing more than half their money from nonmembers to comply with burdensome registration and reporting rules. Mainstream denominations do not rely heavily on outside contributions, so the law's obvious targets were newer organizations like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Though Minnesota maintained that the law was a sensible way to protect the public from fraud, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, ruled that it violated the Constitution's establishment of religion clause. Said Brennan: "This statute does not operate evenhandedly, nor was it designed...