Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many astronauts say that the most spectacular sight they have seen in space is their own planet, a fertile blue ball glowing in a black void. Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart has a somewhat different view. In an interview in Co-Evolution Quarterly, a magazine devoted to ecology, Schweickart says, among other things, that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions...
...Captain Lee Minors, 43, who prepped for atoll landings on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hornet in the 1950s: "This is the last place in the world where flying is fun. No fancy strobe lights or air controllers out here. Just dots that shimmer toward you through the void...
...protagonist of "Lover," for example, is a young doctor who becomes obsessed with a mad girl who was brought to his hospital one night battered and raped. The girl seems to symbolize for him the void that underlies his cozy bourgeois life. If it were not for one small detail that Oates adds to the story, the doctor's obsession would be noble, or at any rate much better than middle class complacency. But at the end of the story we learn that the doctor had become sexually excited while examining the girl for evidence of rape. This detail, combined...
...nothing but trash, he should think about cutting back output, or staying away from meaty issues. Hamill must have written Flesh and Blood to be devoured and easily digested. His die-hard New York fans will no doubt eat up the sex and violence, in spite of the nutritional void...
Such feats are the stuff of fantasy. Houdini did them daily, and men could believe in miracles; but when he died, a void appeared to be left behind. Who would now keep doing the impossible things in which Houdini had made us believe...