Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swidler said that the blackout was probably due to a malfunction of the entire system, not of an individual piece of equipment...
...generators--similar to those now used in Radcliffe Quad--would switch on emergency lights at the beginning of a blackout. "They've been under consideration for several weeks. I expect the power failure will trigger action very soon." William Murphy, engineering manager for the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said Wednesday...
...blackout itself remained a mystery yesterday and federal investigators admitted they might never be able to trace the origin of the 80,000 square mile power failure...
...killed the son of a bitch"), including one that indicated premeditation ("I first planned to kill him at the Friday night press conference"). All of which Belli was forced to explain as "confabulation," by which he meant that the statements were Ruby's effort to rationalize his alleged blackout when he pulled the trigger. Already skeptical, the jury was singularly unimpressed when Belli displayed yards of inscrutable electroencephalograms purporting to show the organic brain damage that caused Ruby's epileptic seizure...
...play (by Ann Jellicoe), and in opening it up, Lester set himself a difficult challenge, which he compounded by his non-naturalistic approach. Yet he is strikingly successful. His hallmark is a jumpy, free-association style of editing, and The Knack is made up of very short scenes like blackout sketches and several longer set pieces (such as the already-famous one in which Colin, Tom, and Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings an understated visual style. What might...