Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spook, Lux, DuWatt, and Swan...
...theory is correct, there could be countless black holes among the billions of stars in every galaxy. But if no light or other radiation can escape from the bizarre objects, how can astronomers prove that they really exist? The answer may lie in the constellation Cygnus (The Swan), where scientists are now almost certain that they have located a black hole. Its presence was hinted at in 1971 by the first earth-orbiting X-ray satellite Uhuru, which detected a strong and widely fluctuating flow of X rays from Cygnus. Scientists suspected that the radiation source, which they named Cygnus...
...biggest concern may not be security but his health. Before he accepted his presidential nomination, doctors warned him that his heart could not stand the strain of four years in office. When Perón attended a gala performance of Swan Lake at the Teatro Colón on the night of his inauguration, newsmen noticed a specially equipped mobile heart unit parked outside...
...first time it's been cleaned." Fellow actors planned to organize a Sylvia Miles defense fund to pay Simon's cleaning bill -but on one condition. That Miles repeats the performance once a week. ∙ Jean Cocteau said she had the head of a little black swan. "And," added Colette, "the heart of a little black bull." Caustic Couturière Coco Chanel, however, always had the last insult ("Colette preferred two grilled sausages to love; Cocteau was well bred. He had no talent, so he listened"). While stocking the modern woman's wardrobe (the little black...
...become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became one of the best companies in the world...