Word: convert
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Winchell would have cooked up his own word -- cinetome? flickfic? -- something that catches the brash fluency and gritty romanticism of his own life. He would never have dared, though, to convert himself, as Herr so elegantly does, into a pint-size paradigm of scrambled patriotism and American success gone crazy. Herr's Winchell is an ex-vaudevillian who dances as he writes and lives: with little grace but an overabundance of berserk energy. He starts by posting sheets of trade tattle and pillow talk backstage at the crummy vaudeville theaters he plays. Within a decade he moves center stage, prowling...
...BLUE NILE: HATS (A&M). A trio of ethereally rocking Scotsmen, the Blue Nile weaves a sound mosaic that is part sci-fi parable and part Arcadian fantasy. Gentle, uninsistent and insinuating, a single listen to The Downtown Lights could convert anyone this side of an Aerosmith fan to full-fledged Nile fever...
...California Edison, which is putting up half of the money (the rest is coming from the Los Angeles department of water and power). When electrical power passes through a wire, it creates a magnetic field. A metal plate moving through that field can, by a process known as induction, convert the magnetic force back into electricity. When such a metal plate is suspended from the bottom of a battery-run car, the vehicle can pick up power simply by moving down an electrified road. For maximum performance the plate needs to glide within...
...this sense, however, I am glad that liberalism has won another convert. Although he won't admit it, Sneider is not a "progressive conservative," but a pragmatic liberal. David L. Lessing...
Harvard hopes it can reach a two-year option agreement with NHS. Under such an arrangement, NHS would have two years to find a developer to convert the land--called the "ledge site"--into housing, probably for low-income residents. If that search were successful, Harvard would officially sell the land at "an agreed upon price," McCluskey said...