Word: corkscrewing
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GENERAL ELECTRIC. Seated in six auditoriums, 1,428 people revolve around a talking-dummy, four-act show that divulges what electricity has wrought in the home. Then, up an escalator to the stars, down a corkscrew ramp to see nuclear fusion. Snappy from start to finish...
...twisted bicycle. A flattened toy gun. A silver corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
...level gravity force. The light should have blinked on only after Cooper's three retrorockets had been fired, nudging the capsule out of orbit. If working properly, the light would also mean that the autopilot system was set to start the capsule rolling slowly. The roll, imparting a corkscrew motion as the capsule bores into the atmosphere, would produce a smoother reentry...
...plans a career in business or the Army instead of baseball) and a daughter-in-law who is expecting a baby in August. But Stan the Man is not quite ready for the rocking chair. Under the lights in St. Louis last week, Musial abruptly uncoiled from his corkscrew stance, stepped into a pitch thrown by the Dodgers' Bob Miller, and cracked it into the Busch Stadium bleachers. I was his 465th home run, and together with 717 doubles and 175 triples, it gave him a lifetime total of 1,357 extra-base hits_breaking Babe Ruth...
...book deals with the old masters-Sullivan, Ferret, Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Finland's Alvar Aalto. Some readers may question Jones's conclusion that Wright and not Le Corbusier was the greatest architect of their generation, or that Wright's corkscrew Guggenheim Museum is his best work. (Perhaps because Le Corbusier is the most inaccessible of architects, Jones's chapter on him lacks the luster of the others...