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David N. Schramm, a University of Chicago astrophysicist, speculates that relic neutrons--those left over from the Big Bang, the gaseous explosion believed to have formed the universe more than 9 billion years ago--outnumber the protons, neutrons, and electrons that comprise ordinary matter by about 10 billion to 1. The average cubic centimeter in the universe contains about 450 of these relic neutinos. Schram contends that if these particles have even a tiny mass, unlike the current description of conventional physics, scientists can construct a radically different view of the universe and explain several cosmological riddles...
...they can not explain the incredible masses of the largest clusters. Recent research indicates, however, that the clusters might have captured the slow-moving relic neutrinos from the Big Bang and bound them in their gravitational fields. These neutrinos would then form the massive invisible halo surrounding the cluster...
...front man for John P. Harrigan, godfather of Boston's Irish Mafia, whose laundered money is being used for suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor...
...help wondering, though--as you watch a young man in drag dancing up a storm and then snapping a "Hi, mom," into the audience--how this relic of "gentlemanly" fun has survived, or why. Whatever the topical theme of each show, the jokes always return to that most undergraduate of comical subjects, sex--and the humor is not always only verbal. Would the Pudding audiences find it less funny to see an actress fondle a mop-end than an actor in drag? When the audience guffaws as the kick-line picks up its skirts to reveal red garters and yellow...
After last spring's tour of China (the first ever by an American college team), the cagers will open their 1980-81 schedule with an exhibition against the ouring Portuguese team November 20 at that peach-basket era relic, the Indoor Athletic Building. And the way things looks as practice moves into its second week, the team may be creating some surprising domestic trouble when the season gets underway...