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...possible source of gravitational waves is the death of an ancient, massive star after its nuclear fires have burned out. No longer supported by its own radiant energy, it collapses violently, its density and gravitation becoming so great that it crushes itself out of existence. For all practical purposes, according to theory, the star becomes a "black hole" in space. But to produce waves on the scale observed by Weber, some 200 such stars would have to collapse every year in the Milky Way: scientists believe that the actual rate is only about one per year. Weber is equally puzzled...
...abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective, but it is less ominous and powerful. Leonard Baskin's murky, impressionistic black-and-white line drawings and washes fail to evoke Dante's sulphurous and radiant visions. They will have a hard time displacing the memory of Gustave Doré's illustrations...
There is no hero. The central figure is Basho, the great 17th century Japanese poet. To this role, Nicholas Kepros brings a wry gravity of mien and a musical clarity of line delivery that merits his being called Zen Gielgud. Basho is on a quest for enlightenment, a radiant shaft of wisdom that will have the direct luminous perception of one of his poems...
...vivacity, energy and flair for exuberant gesture and radiant color, American art in the 1940s was already betraying a moody melancholy lurking beneath the aggressive romanticism. Ar shile Gorky's disembodied forms, drifting poignantly amid the lyric whisperings of nature, have a kind of indescribable horror, like cancer in a beautiful girl. Edward Hopper's Gas is everybody's home town - and it is stifling with loneliness...
...today, either black or white, could possibly paint or envision the tender, natural black and white spirits as Michelangelo did on the Sistine Ceiling-the twin inspirations of the prophetess Cumaea. But along with Michelangelo, today's artists might ponder the thought of Plotinus, the sooty, stooped and radiant philosopher who argued that dark and light together shape the world...