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...always been inspired more by the Mafia than by the Gray Ladies. Moreover, it has a recurring weakness for the kind of tunnel vision that imagines a glimpse into Plato's Retreat reveals the daydreams of the inhabitants of Texarkana. So it is useful to remember the warp of many impressions of the '70s that have gained currency. Some result from the tendency to mistake the new and exotic for the prevalent and enduring...
...course, was the Rev. Jim Jones, a peculiarly American product. So many details of his bizarre life have emerged in the past week that most people are probably tired of him already, but for others the fascination, albeit morbid, remains. Here was a man who managed to combine and warp good impulses by way of a twisted psyche...
...shortly after Einstein formulated his theory, a German colleague named Karl Schwarzschild considered one of general relativity's consequences. If a star were to become sufficiently compact and dense, Schwarzschild found, its gravity would so warp space and time around it that the star would literally enclose itself. For a celestial body of the sun's mass, the critical radius turned out to be about 3 km (2 miles). If the star shrunk beyond that, it would vanish. This so-called Schwarzschild radius, or event horizon, is in effect the black hole's boundary. Any matter crossing it simply disappears...
Truly, the citizens of Hyden, Ky., must live in a time warp. No other phenomenon would excuse this example of blindness and deafness to the real political and historical world of July...
...million recreation center (gymnasium, swimming pool, community center and tennis courts). Gerald Ford was invited to dedicate the center, but his schedule was full. To Hyden's surprise, Nixon accepted. Flying into a tiny nearby airport in an executive jet, Nixon may have imagined himself in a time warp, transported back ten years to an old campaign. He found a crowd of 1,000; some of them had waited for three hours in 90° heat. They wore Nixon campaign buttons; some lugged his 1,120-page memoirs, the size of a small steamer trunk, hoping...