Word: outer
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Reversing one of those directions, Powell returns to London to make the rounds as an all-purpose book reviewer for the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator-whoever will have him, whatever the tome. In England, as in the New World, Powell seems to be on the outer edge of every circle-a well-bred failure in frayed shirts from Harrods...
Scientists addressing this riddle have postulated the existence of a sort of invisible "dark material" at the outer ranges of galaxy clusters. Researchers conclude that normal matter, comprised of protons and neutrons, can account for this dark component of individual galaxied and small groups of galaxies...
Jocelyn Davey is the nom de plume of Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who has been an Oxford don, a Foreign Office functionary and spokesman for the Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard...
Today Tiegs is still dazzling, though in aid of Cover Girl makeup and Olympus cameras, not cigarettes, and it is now O.K. to be 33. But brunette models, muttering sedition, have come back from outer darkness and onto Vogue covers. The natural look that requires an hour and a half at the makeup table to achieve is still in high regard with editors and advertisers, but the artful windblown disarray that sometimes accompanied it no longer seems as fresh as it once...
Today, nearly nine years later, Young, now 50, is ready to command the Columbia space shuttle on its maiden voyage, scheduled for March. A former Navy jet pilot who retired in 1976 with the rank of captain, Young logged four trips into outer space between 1965 and 1972. His co-pilot in Columbia will be Robert Crippen, 43, a Navy captain and jet pilot. The two have more than 12,000 hours flying time and an almost boyish sense of excitement about getting the chance to control the most sophisticated flying machine ever built...