Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, a work in which science and technology are subordinated to narrative techniques not usually found in popular fiction. The style is better appreciated when the novel is considered as a continuation of Moorcock's Byzantium Endures (1982), a work of similar grand design that introduced the author's crank hero, Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. His opening line of the sequel: "I am one of the great inventors of my age. Rejected by its birthplace, my genius would otherwise be universally acknowledged...
...whatever discomfort the beep imposes, it is an excellent deterrent to the crank or obscene caller...
...brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole we are all quite game. It's life itself that seems to be wanting"), about his comical doorman, about whether to crank up an old affair with a woman who has sent him a postcard, about the arresting fact that the Manhattan Yellow Pages are available in Spanish. No, he decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily as could be wished, without even...
Faced with falling prices, OPEC may crank back its oil output...
...confused with the fancier adult playthings that fetch drinks or sweep the kitchen. Rather, many of these unwired "action figures," which cost a modest $3 to $22, get their go from a special twist. They are fantasy machines and long-favored hot-rods all in one. With a crank of the arms or a snap of the legs, each can be changed from a robot into a race car or a truck or a plane, then back to robot again. One of the Transformers, for instance, resembles an innocent cassette player until he is snapped open to become the despised...