Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...falling water droplets, migrate to the bottom of a cloud, giving it a strong negative charge. Because like charges repel, that negative charge drives away electrons in the ground below, leaving it with an excess positive charge. Eventually, the voltage between cloud and ground becomes so great that electrons burst across the insulating air barrier, producing a brilliant flash...
What triggers the bolt, says Follin, are particles in the secondary cosmic showers called muons, which increase the charge with fresh electron avalanches. Finally, electrons burst from the cloud along a path of ionized (electrically charged) air. As other muons intercept the path at different angles, forming new trails, the electrons follow a jagged, steplike route to the ground...
...Douglas. Seeing him, Falstaff drops to the ground and plays dead. Despite the ensuing fairly well-staged duel and despite the later blocking of Hal exactly between the now dead Hotspur and the fake--dead Falstaff, the scene remains unbalanced. Its impact comes and goes with the initial comic burst...
Schumann: Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 (Pianist Lazar Berman, Columbia/Melodiya). Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Pianist Lazar Berman, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado conductor, Columbia). Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage (Pianist Lazar Berman, Deutsche Grammophon; 3 LPs). More product, to borrow the record-company jargon, from the pianist who burst out of Russia two years ago and has been a one-man industry ever since. The less said about Berman's Schumann the better: he simply does not feel the music. No problems with the Rachmaninoff. Here is the fabled Berman technique operating with all its power, speed and subtlety...
...week later the bubble burst when the Rams lost to Marquette again in the Garden by five points after the game went into overtime. In the post-season NCAA tourney Fordham lost to Villanova. The Wildcats went on to lose to UCLA in the finals, but were later declared ineligible because Howard Porter had already received money to turn professional...