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...mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities. When he pontificates to Edmund about wasting electricity, only permitting one absurd bulb to be lit, Walker seems so serious, so genuinely frantic, the underlying humor does not come through...
...population is at its peak and office machinery is working full blast, the air in the central core of the building rapidly warms up. (The human body in a 72°F room gives off 250 B.T.U.s per hour, about equal to the heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through a labyrinth of ducts by ventilating fans. Some is mixed with cool air from outside and pumped back into the center of the building to provide fresh air; some is circulated past pipes carrying cooler water from the basement. During this encounter, the water...
Other questions from the fake test poked fun at the amount of time that Chem 5a students spend on their homework; "Q--how many Chem 5a students does it take to change a light bulb? A,--None, Chem 5 students are too busy doing homework to worry about a little inconvenience like darkness...
Other questions from the fake test poked fun at the amount of time that Chem 5a students spend on their homework: "Q.--How many Chem 5a students does it take to change a light bulb? A.--None, Chem 5 students are too busy doing homework to worry about a little inconvenience like darkness...
...game took shape on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Montreal in 1979 when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, challenged each other to a game of Scrabble. Then, Haney recalls, a light bulb went on over his head: "Why don't we invent a game?" Less than an hour later they had designed the basic structure. Devising the questions, however, took much obsessive poring over almanacs, encyclopedias and old newspapers. After nearly two years of research, the group, which included Haney's brother John, a retired hockey player, settled on 6,000 queries...