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...atmosphere, blotting out the sun for months or years, and causing mass extinctions of life--including, many believe, the dinosaurs. Of the known larger earth crossers, none seem to pose a threat in the near future. But, says Shoemaker, "until we have tracked all of them, something could sneak...
...Lamont Library was closed to women and I was irate at that, but I made an individual response. I disguised myself up as a boy, got my friends to sneak me in, and studied there for a night," recalls Margit Johansson '61, a research associate in Womens Studies at the University of Colorado. "My feelings were there, but there was no women's movement to back...
...days, people with complaints against the media had few recourses: a stern letter to the editor, perhaps, or a protesting phone call. "Captain Midnight," an outraged consumer of the space age, took more daring action. In a sneak attack made just after midnight on Sunday of last week, the self- appointed video avenger broke into an HBO presentation of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman with a cryptic message: GOODEVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT. $12.95 A MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/ THE MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE...
...Early American sideboards, houses in the South of France and dressy parties. Billy and her husband are a matching pair in their indifference to all of the above. It is the adulterers who are incompatible, an irony at once deliciously comic and far too tidy. When the lovers finally sneak off to an idyllic week in a Vermont cottage, subsisting on passion and toasted cheese in bed, the reader feels the burned crumbs far more palpably than what Billy, in her carefully bored monotone, calls "the rapturous consummation." Frank concludes, "Were we to cohabit, I believe I would be driven...
...tried to sneak a fastball by him," Hurst said. "I wouldn't back down. I felt I should throw my best pitch in that spot...