Word: bladed
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...cousin to technology used in submarines) monitors sound levels through microphones inside the plane walls. A computer initiates vibrations through special absorbers to counter those from the propellers, reducing the resonance of the airframe and hushing the cabin about 4 db quieter than many jets. ATR upgraded its four-blade propeller to a six-blade fiber-composite one with a smaller diameter that generates less vibration and cabin noise when coupled with other noise-dampening features...
...that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda." Then Gibbs twisted the rhetorical blade. "We regret that he had a change of heart," the spokesman said. Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated the ability of one of their own to embarrass the President. "Senator Gregg made a principled decision," crowed House Republican leader John Boehner in a press release. "The Administration is taking another...
...looks like he's in a battle," says Painter Peter Hurd, his brother-in-law. "He stabs at the work as if with a stiletto, dabbing with a bit of Kleenex, slashing with a razor blade." The water-colors materialize by the hundreds, spattery with a bravura immediacy...
...Wyeth is neither a slave to the faithful detailing of nature, as were Courbet and Manet, nor a scientific observer of light and atmosphere, as were the impressionists. "I want more than half the story," he says. "There are some people who like my work because they see every blade of grass. They're seeing only one side of it. They don't see the tone. If you can combine realism and abstraction, you've got something terrific...
...some, a man who bothers to paint a blade of grass is an anachronism who must have been born in the previous century. The late Bernard Berenson, going on guesswork, believed that Wyeth was dead ("What a pity America has starved its painters," he murmured). No foreign museums or collectors have ever bought his work...