Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When not engaged in light housework, Arok passes the day gazing sternly over the living room from his accustomed corner next to the TV set. He moves toward you quietly, with an air of intimidating strength. You know his limbs contain sensors that will short his circuits before he can crush your limbs, but you are reluctant to take his hand when he offers it. You know Arok's master is putting words in his mouth from across the room through a microphone in an attache´ case-sized control panel, but you find yourself interviewing him with stiff...
...remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin or the 1001 Strings for air waves...
...thanks to ads placed in two magazines published for beer-can collectors. The demand proved so great that a tiny black market sprang up, with empty beer cans changing hands at $5 each. "There were lots of folks who just drove into town, bought a couple cans full of air and drove right back out," said Allen Kruger, Chairman for Grafton's Centennial Celebration. Now that the empty cans are almost gone, Grafton is refusing to sell any more at all, hoping that the price will continue to rise. And what will the authorities do with their oddly earned...
Nevertheless, an air of cautious optimism prevailed in Washington last week. Buoyed by the recent agreement between Zaire and Angola to re-establish formal relations and cease their border fighting, U.S. officials are still hoping that a peaceful solution in Namibia could have some direct influence in pointing the way to a resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia...
...like how the clarinet sounds most of the time. In the official style, you don't have enough freedom to wander." His own clarinet, by turns, mimics the fluttery delicacy of a flute, the finespun song of a violin, a bassoon's dark, melancholy air. His playing refuses to sound well-schooled. Even Mozart runs take off so spontaneously that Stoltzman might almost be improvising-as he often does. He recently took part in a jazz workshop at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and let fly with some big-band solos. Says he: "I told them that...