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...that and, to a startling degree, succeeds. English Author D.M. Thomas, 46, creates an intensely private heroine to whom extraordinarily public things happen. During the course of her fictional life, Lisa Erdman, a modestly talented opera singer of Polish and Ukrainian descent, is forced to make two journeys that propel her around the perimeter of 20th century imagination. She is treated for sexual hysteria by Sigmund Freud in Vienna and, years later, murdered by Nazi soldiers at Babi...
...floor, slinky, often inconspicuous. By the end of the first half, he had scored more than 20 points, and hardly anyone paid attention. But in the second half, he was unstoppable and eminently noticeable, hitting from all angles to run his game total to 45 points and to propel his Eagles...
...tumult of soaring prices and unpredictable supplies has played havoc with the economy for years. Since 1973 there have been two recessions, and as energy prices have soared they have helped propel inflation to one of the highest sustained levels in the nation's peacetime history. The U.S. now stares at the possibility of perhaps a decade of 10% or higher annual inflation. The lives of Americans, from the clothes they wear to the cars they drive, have been profoundly altered...
...energy hope for the future. Perhaps the most far-reaching application involves the space colonization ideas of Princeton Physicist Gerard O'Neill. He and some colleagues at M.I.T. are already building models of kindred electromagnetic launchers that they believe could be assembled on the moon and used to propel tons of lunar ores into space for construction of solar-powered space habitats...
...stocks up by 49 points, to 986.35; that was a half point below the previous high reached on Jan. 10, 1977-just ten days before Jimmy Carter moved into the White House. At week's end some brokers were speculating that the market had enough upward momentum to propel the Dow through the magic 1,000 level-which it last hit in 1973-by the time Reagan takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...