Word: chambers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exercise required close coordination between earth and space. Astronauts Sally Ride and Mary Cleave, who are experienced with the robot arm, practiced flipping a replica of the switch at Mission Control. Other technicians tested duplicates of the manipulators in a special vacuum chamber to make sure they would withstand the airless chill of outer space...
...Siegfried Idyll is the erotic pulse that the ballet moves to. In the long first section, five couples proclaim their love with both passion and a delicate concern for each other that is ineffably moving. The music changes to the Adagio for Clarinet and Strings, a brief, little-known chamber composition, also by Wagner. The couples recline at the rear of the stage, the women cradled between the men's knees. A sixth couple, David Parsons and Cathy McCann, costumed in dazzling white, enter and dance a charming, fluid duet. In the end the whole cast is joined in serene...
...full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce used the drug as the official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time for fools to come forth, when only bandits can be kings") and a gift for painterly description: Taiwan...
P.R.I. claimed to have won the seven state gubernatorial races. Although some P.R.I. officials initially said the party had also swept all 300 contested seats in the national Chamber of Deputies, P.A.N. later announced that it expected to win as many as 37. An additional 100 seats will be apportioned among P.A.N. and other minority parties...
...when the swelling magma chamber prepared to blow, the humor quickly subsided. And the audience turned quiet as a modest eruption turned into a worldwide catastrophe...