Word: diagraming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...seen in the Zapruder film to be waving before he was first struck in the back of the neck, the experts believe that his raised right arm bunched up the top of the jacket; unfolded, the jacket thus shows a hole lower than the one in his back (see diagram page...
From there on out, the propaganda intensified, as the card-carrying faithful created an oversize portrait of Chairman Mao, a blockbuster mural of Chinese industrial development and pictorial tributes to China's performing arts, medical services (including a flash-card diagram showing acupuncture of an ear) and table tennis, the nation's No. 1 sport. After the mass-performance art, the games could have seemed anticlimactic. But since China is making a concerted bid to participate in next summer's Olympics in Montreal, the National Games became unofficial Olympic trials. At least three world marks for pistol...