Word: bladed
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...failures of the 1980s showed the researchers that they knew almost nothing about building machines that could withstand and harness the turbulence of wind. Early models used blades of a type originally designed for helicopters. Since wind pressure could vary considerably from one end of the blade to the other, the rotor would wobble wildly and eventually break off. Sudden gusts of wind could overpower the machine and burn out its energy- converting turbine. Some engineers tried solving the problems by building heavier machines, but that simply made them more expensive...
Harvard Film Archive--Making "Do the Right Thing" directed by St. Claire Bourne, USA, with American Shoeshine directed by Sparky Green, USA, at 5:30 p.m. Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, Great Britain, at 7 p.m. The Lady Eye directed by Preston Sturges...
Pessimists, on the other hand, are ready to conclude that California is over the hill, descending a spiral of environmental, fiscal and social calamities. There is even a group of so-called declinists, like UCLA economist David Hensley, whose downward forecasting has been caricatured by others as a Blade Runner vision of economic stagnation, environmental plunder, surging crime and ethnic conflict...
...Beacon St. in Brookline. Call 277-0982. Thursday: Young Neil and the Vipers. Friday: The 11th Hour Band and T. Blade and the Fabulous Esquires. Saturday: Shy Fire. Sunday: Songwriter's Showcase, a benefit for the Children's AIDS Program. Monday: the Hypnotic Clambake. Tuesday: Ce Ce and It Never Rains and Bachelors of Art. Wednesday: One Thin Dime...
Like the hungry infant's cry, the car alarm is designed to be unignorable -- that is, unendurable. One popular model from Code-Alarm, for example, puts out 125 decibels: "Louder than a police siren," says a publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...