Word: compressional
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For a plain-talking Texan who has spent years poking around the innards of high-compression engines, Carroll Shelby, 43, can get pretty tense. Whenever he thinks about Enzo Ferrari, which is often, he also thinks about the annual 24-hour Le Mans race-and what happens to his blood...
Using an ordinary wrench for such an ordinary job would throw an astronaut for a loop. Newton's third law of motion is an inexorable reminder that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man...
Wherever you stand in Manhattan you stand within blocks of famous persons, famous places, muggings, weird characters, impossible situations: all optional. New York has often been compared to a poem, with its vivid music (of inner machinery) and insane compression (of all tongues, races, lives). As a poem, New York...
Rarely since James Joyce have the levels of puzzlement been laid on so thick. The "stations" of the title are, among other things: 1) a series of 14 Manhattan subway stations, describing a cruciform route, compulsively traveled one night by a homosexual voyeur who is fleeing from a grafting vice...
But in their ebullience, the Japanese have preferred merely to grow, and so Tokyo continues to spread over the once green Kanto Plain like lava from an erupting volcano. As one Japanese psychologist wrote: "The Japanese is by nature prone to feel lonely, and he cannot bear to lead a...