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...cultural phenomenon, black holes also appear in slogans on T shirts and bumper stickers (BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT), and are the subject of banter by Johnny Carson and other TV talk show hosts. A gag advertisement in the sci-fi magazine Analog by a company named Nothingness Unlimited promoted "black-hole disposal units," invisible devices (in seven decorator colors) that suck up unlimited waste...
...sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, a space-walking astronaut is separated from his ship and sent hurtling off to his death in space by an intelligent but deranged computer. Last week, in spite of Russian efforts to keep the incident quiet, Western sources reported that a Soviet cosmonaut narrowly avoided a similar fate in February. The near mishap apparently resulted from an unauthorized space walk by Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, 33, during last spring's record-breaking 96-day orbital flight aboard the Salyut 6 space station...
...Comedy, sci-fi and girls, girls, girls...
...Brittany, she reports that she drew her first cartoon at age five and went on to too many years of art school. After teaching drawing in Paris, she began selling freelance cartoons to comic-strip magazines. Among those early Bretéchers were Turnips in the Cosmos, a sci-fi epic, and Cellulite, the saga of a husband-hunting medieval princess. Publisher Claude Perdriel was impressed by some of her more satirical strips, and in 1974 offered her the newly vacant job of regular cartoonist at his Nouvel Observateur. "I submitted my work on the condition that they...
Dangerous Illusions. All of which concerns the Rev. Harold O.J. Brown, a sci-fi buff and conservative theologian at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. The film, he says in a Christianity Today review, offers the dangerous illusion "that somewhere out there are unknown but benevolent powers that will ultimately cause everything to turn out all right." That, complains Brown, entirely bypasses God's judgment upon sin and Christ's incarnation to save man. To him, the film is bad science fiction, used to convey "the contentless mysticism that is so popular in a skeptical but still deeply...