Word: blanched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That left as front runners Runcie and England's second-ranking churchman, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch, 61. But Blanch was considered a little too old and too courtly for the job. Runcie seemed more likely to bring energy and excitement to Anglicanism...
...terms of technique, Edel's advice to his class would make Boswell blanch. Throw out great masses of detail, he advises, in favor of "essences and distillations." Let the biographer describe scenes in his own words, not those of the subject. Quote documents sparingly, for fear of blurring the story line. Most heretical of all, he advocates psychoanalyzing a subject-as when, in his Henry James, he constantly linked sibling rivalry between Henry and his brother William to plots and characters in James' work...
...force exerted on passengers speeding around a 90-ft.-high loop reaches more than 3 Gs-enough to make a test pilot blanch. Since the big loops are generally on a track that deadends, riders have to repeat the entire process backward to return to the loading ramp. Traveling backward is foreign to people in a straightforward world, and there is considerable disorientation in whipping through a loop at high speed in reverse. The most hardened roller-coaster freak can climb out of a giant loop with wobbly knees and churning stomach...
...most endearing and human quality is its unevenness. Guest hosts participate in the sketches themselves and some write their own jokes too. Carlin set the pace on his, the first show, with a line that would make prime-time programmers blanch: "God can't be perfect; everything he makes dies." By the time Lily Tomlin came on to host the fifth show, SN had a cult following. She made it a smash, her double-edged style and swift undercuts setting off SN's frenzied variety. Suddenly, everyone wanted to act as host: Richard Pryor, Elliott Gould, Buck Henry...
Ordinary mortals might blanch at such howlingly incomprehensible computerese, but the message turned out to be, if not altogether graspable, at least mildly approachable. The errant computer in question was built by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and installed at Harvard five years ago, presumably reliably analyzing data at a steady, comforting clip. No one discovered until early this month that it was inaccurate in, of all places, the ninth digit -still quite serviceable for run-of-the-mill computer wizardry, but not the very best the machine was fully capable of. Some infinitesimally remote calculation was slipping ever so slightly...