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...mathematicians call a "singularity." Its matter is squeezed into an infinitesimally small volume, and it simultaneously becomes infinitely dense and has an infinitely high gravitational force. At the point of singularity, time and space no longer exist. "Imagine," says Harvard Astrophysicist Jonathan Grindlay, "you take an enormous mass and shrink it down to nothing. A very disturbing idea...
...mind-opening and beautiful experience for her, but is she really going to live a with someone who's paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life? And Clayburgh, although she does go through a deep, soul-searching experience with a fashionable, female, Manhattan shrink after her husband leaves her, really doesn't find happiness until she finds Alan Bates. And Annie Girardot, who fits neither of these categories, instead idiotically bounces back, and forth between career, children, and lover, in that order, making not much sense...
...variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent-shaped bowtie worn with a choker collar so high and stiff that the wearer could neither see to the side nor turn his head. This year, fashion designers have ordained that, along with lapels, the thing must shrink again to '50s proportions (about three inches at the widest place...
...after taking office, Miller asserted openly that Carter should declare inflation to be the nation's No. 1 economic problem. The President did, a month later. Miller publicly advised Carter to delay the $25 billion tax cut that the President had proposed to take effect Oct. 1, and to shrink the budget deficit. Carter has agreed to make the tax reduction effective Jan. 1, and to squeeze it down to $15 billion. That and other actions, according to Administration forecasts announced last week, are supposed to lower the budget deficit for fiscal 1979 from the $60.6 billion that Carter...
...prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied services. The cost of mailing a letter inside France went up from 22? to 26?, and this week premium gasoline will rise 10.7%, to $2.20 per gal. By charging more for services, Barre hopes to shrink the government's inflationary $4.3 billion budget deficit...