Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...
Thinking both had missed, and muttering to himself in a cold rage, Gilmore followed the MIG through another wrenching, rolling loop of a brain-draining six gravities, then cut loose a third Sidewinder. The enemy's tail section came apart in a tumble of torn metal, and the plane pitched earthward. In fact, Gilmore's first Sidewinder had also scored, and the Red pilot had ejected. In getting the first MIG-21, Gilmore had killed it twice...
DeRudder had not regained consciousness after the long, dramatic operation. The post-mortem examination showed why. Part of a clot, found in the left auricle during surgery, had evidently broken away, traveled to DeRudder's brain, and blocked a major cerebral artery. Surgeon DeBakey was buoyed by the fact that the pump's own firm but gentle action had created no clotting problems, though DeRudder had had them earlier...
...nuances and specious distinctions set forth both by the committee and RGA are brain-numbering. No one has been able to find any reason for retaining sign-outs, except that the alumnx may be ruffled and the Record-American titillated if Radcliffe doesn't. Questions of safety are no longer applicable; having your destination listed on a sign-out card is no protection against muggers, rapists, or perverts in the Common or on Garden St. Nor do sign-out rules preserve chastity or prevent undergraduate affairs, although a few girls argue that having a curfew helps them "make decisions...
...final scene Nabokov reveals that Waltz's demonic invention, and his successful rise to power, and-for all the reader knows-most of the fools, fops, frauds, pacifists, pederasts, know-nothings and impotents who people the play, have been merely the fantasies of Waltz's buzzing brain. This whole monstrous world, suggests Nabokov, is just a madman's dream. Does Waltz speak for Nabokov? Nabokov says nyet. Yet by refusing to establish any objective grounding, Nabokov reduces his cloud-capped tower of fantasy to a dusty heap of speculation. The reader is left to realize that where...