Word: ryan
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Success has a way of changing plans like that, and The Iceman Cometh is a success indeed. It is not merely a worthy production of a great play; it also possesses moments-most notably in the performance of Robert Ryan-of its own greatness. Altogether, it is a film of such extraordinary beauty and power that the A.F.T. would be doing both itself and the public a disservice if it quickly retired the film to a vault...
Charlotte Ryan, organizer of the demonstration, said yesterday, "We didn't even expect to get in, but we're satisfied since we shook them up. They didn't expect to hear their people's slogans...
...perhaps the most imaginative theory offered to date, University of Texas Physicists Albert A. Jackson IV and Michael P. Ryan Jr. have proposed that the 1908 explosion was caused by a "black hole" - a bizarre celestial object scientists believe exist in great numbers throughout the universe...
Jackson and Ryan calculate that if such an object (which would have the mass of a moderate-sized asteroid) intercepted the earth's path at a velocity of about 25,000 m.p.h., it would have set off a shock wave quite similar to the one from the Siberian blast. They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton...
Jackson and Ryan offer a concrete check for their fantastic suggestion. Witnesses to the Tunguska blast indicated that whatever caused it streaked toward the earth at an angle of 30° from the horizon. If the object was actually a black hole, it would have easily penetrated the earth in an almost straight line and emerged eight minutes later on the other side, about 1,000 miles east of Nova Scotia, triggering underwater and atmospheric shock waves and drawing off a thin, geyser-like column of water as it flew into space. Jackson and Ryan suggest that their theory...