Word: bulbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brownish, broody, tattered just so; the tone of the crowd scenes is strenuously raunchy; during the battle scene, cannon fire pops your eardrums, and the R.S.C. smoke machine wafts its fumes across the orchestra seats; the whole production looks to be illuminated by a 20-watt bulb. To see this ensemble devote itself with patented bustle to Cyrano is to feel the comfortable but unsatisfying sensation of watching a favorite dog do old tricks...
...bare red Jones at light center bulb stage, reveals the slumped Rev. in that familiar straight-backed armchair, legs akimbo, dark glasses shading eyes that gaze off dissolutely into space. The image has become one of our era's most indelible, and the events that sprang from it -Jones' the People's suicide-murder Temple of in 913 Guyana members in of 1978-still cry out for explanation. Jones town Express, which premiered last week at Providence's Trinity Square Repertory Theater, flounders somewhat as it butts against the incomprehensibility of the tragedy...
...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...