Word: circularity
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Szaro is also currently involved in developing a new kind of bicycle that is ready to be marketed in about one year. The idea, conceived by Szaro and a Soviet engineer he helped come over to the U.S. years earlier, replaces the inefficient circular motion of the standard bicycle with a horizontal motion, something like a linear pump, and more natural to the motion people use in walking...
...just as important an influence was that of Latin American poets, such as Neruda, Huidobro, Gabriela, Mistral, and Octavio Paz. "Our (contemporary Latin American novelists') language is possible because the poets offered it. Poets like Neruda discovered local rhythms and the circular sense of time of our culture. And Borges, one of the founders of modern Latin American literature, taught us that the Spanish language was good for something other than making speeches...
...sense of time is different--there is a coincidence of time, a circular time." Fuentes adds that Latin American novelists' emphasis on surrealism and employment of ancient, regional symbolism and mythology stems party from this uneven modernization process, and a preoccupation with the past "which is always present...
...MEMBER of former President-elect Reagan's ill-fated Defense Department transition team--the one whose chairman was ordered never to show his face in the Pentagon again by the Secretary of Defense, and whose report apparently beat a hasty path to the circular file--was ruminating the other day about the nation's leadership change, in particular about the effectiveness of the Reagan transition effort. For four months, a government-in-exile rapidly deployed itself in Washington, seizing an office complex at 1726 Massachusetts Ave. NW, spending money, filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering...
...bought the onetime home of Adlai Stevenson on Foxhall Road, with six bedrooms, 4½ baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...