Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that wasn't valid," Bennett said. "Anybody can eat glass." After he took an initial chomp out of a bulb, others at the party said they wanted...
...walk in the door, one of Paul's house-mates Greg, is doing an experiment in the kitchen. He teaches science to ninth graders, and he's showing the experiment to Susan and another woman whose name I miss. The experiment makes hot ammonia gush up into a glass bulb, turning red in the process. It works. Greg is pleased, Paul introduces me to everyone...
...they were ambiguous. As Kissinger emerged from one session, a nearly all-black cat jumped atop his Cadillac limousine. At another meeting in the private home of an American jeweler in fashionable Neuilly-sur-Seine, Kissinger pointed at the ceiling and said with a puckish smile: "When the light bulb starts blinking, it means we have to change the tape." As the North Vietnamese laughed, Kissinger assured them the room was not bugged...
...highspeed dives but fails to pull out properly because of his long wings. Temporarily, he gives up: "I am a seagull. I am limited by my nature. If I were meant to fly at speed, I'd have a falcon's short wings." A falcon's short wings! Light bulb! Jonathan dives with partly folded wings, hits 214 m.p.h. ("terminal velocity") and pulls out safely...
...traditional American work ethic, Donald Morrison found last week, can be hard work. "For one thing," he says, "the elements in this essay are so compelling and interwoven that you can summarize them no more easily than a Nabokov novel. And journalists are so accustomed to burning the midnight bulb that you have to remind yourself repeatedly that things can be different in other lines of work...