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...purpose is to see how much control a skater has, how well he or she executes the fundamental techniques of the sport. In competition, three figures are used (they are often the counter, paragraph bracket and paragraph loop-see diagram). Each skater performs alone on the ice. Each may have some reference point in the rink-a pillar or sign-to help line up the dimensions of the figure, but the only reliable road maps are images programmed into sinew and synapses through years of etching the pattern in outlines of frost...
...chart at the left could be a diagram of a complicated computer's electronic circuitry. Or the schematic plan of a vast railway network. In fact it is just a glimpse of the programs run by a single division of a huge federal department-Health, Education and Welfare...
Brenda Way--like most of the collective, both choreographer and dancer--is able to diagram neatly her dances based on "various mathematical systems." Displayed at the concert, her instructions for one dance read something as follows: dancer A does event #1 in a specified time interval; dancer B repeats event #1, adds event #2 and executes the sequence #1 & #2 in the same specified time interval; dancer performs events #1 & #2 & #3 in the same specified...and so on. An entire issue of The Drama Review recently was devoted to similar schemata, labeled "post-modern dance" by the editor...
...carmakers cannot meet the tougher standards that will be required under present rules by 1978. Automakers get the vast majority of their cars past muster now by attaching catalytic converters that remove pollutants from exhaust after it leaves the engine but before it blows out of the tailpipe (see diagram). In order to get as much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those changes, they say, will cut into fuel economy, currently a prime concern of motorists...
...uprights at the front corners fitted with adjustable metal arms that extend into the fireplace. To use it, he places a large log toward the rear of the grate, two smaller ones toward the front, and a fourth log, slightly smaller than the first, on the adjustable arms (see diagram). He then lowers the arms until the top log just touches the surface of the large one at the rear. This creates a cavity that opens into the room-a sort of wooden furnace that contains the fire and prevents much of its heat from immediately escaping up the chimney...