Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague. In the birthplace of the pizza, even mozzarella cheese became an object of suspicion...
...sport stands to reason. Horsehide struck with a stick, a fuzzy object whacked over a net, an inflated sphere thrown into a metal loop - any thinking child can see the absurdities of such games. A thinking adult, of course, is another matter. The intelligent, mature, reasonable fan can see no nonsense in his favorite game. On the contrary, the more ridiculous the better. This weekend some 70 million viewers will parse and analyze the most gripping, controversial absurdity of them all: professional football...
...perhaps the most imaginative theory offered to date, University of Texas Physicists Albert A. Jackson IV and Michael P. Ryan Jr. have proposed that the 1908 explosion was caused by a "black hole" - a bizarre celestial object scientists believe exist in great numbers throughout the universe...
Clearly, such an object would have caused far more cataclysmic damage than the Siberian explosion. But in recent years several scientists have proposed the existence of tiny black holes even smaller than a speck of dust. Some of these may have been formed in the so-called "big bang"-the great explosion that cosmologists believe marked the birth of the universe some 10 to 15 billion years ago. Others could be fragments from collisions between larger black holes...
MOON CHILDREN, by Michael Weller. This is really fine--funny, sad, and as accurate a portrayal of student life as you're likely to see on the stage. If you already know what student life is like, but don't object to good comedies, you'll enjoy it anyway, 7:30 at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...