Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three months. When the group arrived at Wellesley College for a show, Tom and Troy established themselves behind the front lines: in a church basement. Surprised by a photographer as the family was leaving the campus, Hayden exploded, "You want trouble?" He momentarily raised above his head a threatening object, which turned out to be Troy's bassinet...
...blurts out a confession to his wife, who understands; he tells his best friend, who is similarly sympathetic. The fact that his friend was also his mistress's husband only adds a little piquancy to the situation. Awash in forgiveness, the hapless killer has only one logical object for his mounting horror and self-loathing. His home, all glass and chrome and odd, abrupt angles, makes a suitably antiseptic moral landscape for the film, which is implacably smooth and elegant in the telling. Among Chabrol's finest work...
...final object of Israel, Bloom says, should be to "bring the war home to the Arabs without too many civilian casualties so that they won't ever make war on Israel again. Also I hope the Syrians will be forced to release the 7000 Jews they are holding in Syria. Life for them is one continual hell-torture and intimidation. The Syrians won't let them return to Israel...
Jackson and Ryan calculate that if such an object (which would have the mass of a moderate-sized asteroid) intercepted the earth's path at a velocity of about 25,000 m.p.h., it would have set off a shock wave quite similar to the one from the Siberian blast. They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton...
Jackson and Ryan offer a concrete check for their fantastic suggestion. Witnesses to the Tunguska blast indicated that whatever caused it streaked toward the earth at an angle of 30° from the horizon. If the object was actually a black hole, it would have easily penetrated the earth in an almost straight line and emerged eight minutes later on the other side, about 1,000 miles east of Nova Scotia, triggering underwater and atmospheric shock waves and drawing off a thin, geyser-like column of water as it flew into space. Jackson and Ryan suggest that their theory...