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Within the past decade, observations of x-rays from a handful of small regions within our Milky Way suggest that matter is being pulled into warped regions of space where gravity is almost unimaginably powerful. Such a regions not really an object, as much as a hole--a spatial domain...

Author: By Eric J. Chaisson, | Title: Exploring the Invisible: Astronomy in the 70s | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

The raid produced a rather bizarre footnote generated by my warped sense of humor. An officer briefing me on the raid apologized for its failure. I told him not to apologize, joking that no doubt they had brought back a baby water buffalo, and the North Vietnamese were going crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Where'd That Buffalo Go? | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Jerzy Kosinski's heroes have become dependable literary fixtures, as recognizable as Kafka's K. or Beckett's tramps. Rootless, quixotic, warped by an anti-childhood in Holocaust Europe, they traverse the American landscape like knights-errant on a futile search for purpose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Going Is the Goal | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

NORTH DALLAS FORTY is a film about the corrupt, exploitative, and brutal industry of professional sports as told by the corrupt, exploitative and brutal industry of movies. Which means that the filmmakers have given the public what they presume it wants to see--a savage, cynical, off-the-wall, black...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

In Sulloway's view, the Freudians painted themselves into a corner very early, cutting themselves off from the world of science, blotting out the context of Freud's discoveries, and withdrawing into a sectlike movement obsessed with orthodoxy. Much of this flowed from Freud's view of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Did Freud Build His Own Legend? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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