Word: belle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crack shots-an old expression taken from competition shooting, in which a bell was rung to announce a bull...
...artist whose reputation in Manhattan art circles rests on his theater happenings and "cinema sculptures," including a movie of a nude taking a shower. Whitman is fascinated by the fourth dimension, and, to work through his newest analysis of it, he called on the services of two Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers, Eric Rawson and Larry Heilos. They showed him how laser beams, controlled by motorized projectors, could produce the desired effect of hard-edge geometric light lines against the wall (standard incandescent bulbs would diffuse into a more abstract-expressionist glow...
Instead of the classic "They're off!" and the clanging bell quickly obliterated by the sound of pounding hooves you hear "Theeeere goes SWIFty!!" and a mechanical rabbit by that name on the end of a pole whirs in front of the hounds, who pant frantically after it. The majority of races are sprints, and even the long races are over before you have time to tear your eyes away from Swifty. Most bettors stay custered around the TV's in the grandstand and shriek and hoot for "2" or "8" or "5". Almost no-one calls the hounds...
...been at Harvard since he received his Ph.D. here in 1958, with the exception of a year (1960-61) at Yale as an assistant professor. Vogel has written Japan's New Middle Class (1963) and a soon-to-be-published book, Canton under Communism. With N. W. Bell, he edited A Modern Introductory to the Family...
Bode has been with the Bell Laboratories for 41 years. In 1948-49, he was visiting fellow at Princeton. He is the author of Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (1945), and holds several patents on electrical engineering and systems design...