Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designer's narcissism, refined over a long time, that work. The Japanese package is no less an aspect of the country's cultural heritage than the design of a "stolen view" garden or the traditional cutting of a mortise-and-tenon joint in a cedar beam. Like the rest of that heritage, it is dying. The souvenir shop of the famous Ryoanji temple in Kyoto sells boxes of tiny oblong sugar candies. The boxes are exquisitely plain, made of thin strips of unpainted pine. But touch one with a cigarette and it melts: the pine is, in fact...
...plasma would be contaminated and its temperature lowered. The powerful magnetic fields will be manipulated to squeeze the plasma, raising its temperature and increasing the pressure upon it. The plasma will be made even hotter by an electric current generated inside it by another magnetic field and by a beam of deuterium atoms shot into it. These combined effects should raise temperature and pressure high enough in about a tenth of a second to begin fusion of the deuterium and tritium nuclei. The scientists' major goal: to come close to producing as much fusion energy during one of these...
...peak or valley in the wavy sound track of a phonograph record; only when these bits of information are added together does the total information-in this case, a picture of a star-actually emerge. To analyze and combine the specks, the astronomers used a high-speed scanning beam that detected minute differences of light intensity as it swept each speck. The data from each of the 40 plates were then fed into a computer, which reassembled them into a single stellar image, like an artist piecing together a mosaic...
...bulky picture or cathode-ray tubes used in conventional TV sets, a beam of electrons originates in the stem of the tube and sweeps rapidly to and fro across the tube face. Its intensity is controlled by the signal from the TV station. As the beam hits dots of phosphorescent material in the tube face, they glow with a brightness proportional to the strength of the beam. This rapid action produces at least 25 still pictures per second on the screen, creating the illusion of moving images. In the new Westinghouse system, the images are also formed by producing glowing...
...eats them by the dozen. In fact, she eats everything in sight." None of the French fries, hamburgers, pancakes or cases of catsup, however, make the slightest bulge on Olga's 82-lb. frame. When she is not swinging through double flips or slithering along the balance beam with almost reptilian poise, the diminutive gymnast spends her time watching TV, preferably Porky Pig. And at her insistence, the team's first stop after reaching Los Angeles (before they even checked into their hotel) was Disneyland. This is just a phase. Sporting a pink WE LOVE OLGA button, Olga...