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Hjellming admits that such strange funnels between universes sound about as real as the rabbit hole through which Alice tumbled into Wonderland. But, he adds, some evidence may already be at hand that white holes do exist. One of the great puzzles of contemporary astrophysics is the huge amount of energy -cosmic rays, X rays, infrared radiation -that is apparently coming from distant quasars and from the centers of galaxies, including the earth's own Milky Way; the output seems to be greater than can be accounted for by known physical processes, including the conversion of matter into energy...
...Rabbit. That last charge embarrassed even Dole. Still, under Dole's approving eye, Nofziger continues to zero in on such Democratic weak points as Muskie's temper tantrums and Hubert Humphrey's vice presidential stance on the war. In a recent "analytical piece" on opposition candidates, for example, Monday damned Humphrey for being "as wrapped up in the blunders and errors of the Viet Nam War in the '60s as Br'er Rabbit was in the Tar-Baby...
...ethereal beauty of a Chinese scroll. The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls. Woodcutters prowled the thick jungle at will looking for hardwood cinnamon; hunters tracked boar and rabbit, and farmers tilled neat, geometric rice paddies in the rich lap of the foothills...
...tendency to play too many of her emotional cards too early; a little more passivity in the first act would pay larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were some shabby stranger waving in the faint distance, and I found her portrayal so credible that I often found it necessary to avert my eyes from the spectacle...
...well-established fact that one of the most important factors in the establishment of the current Washington administrative jungle has been the great liberal rabbit-like expansion of bureaucracy...