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Word: diagramming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spate of the thirties films that did so well at the box office, turned out to be much more complex and intelligent than anyone expected. Beneath the precise atmospheric touches (the right clothes, the right music, the right slang, etc.) you find an apt and sinister diagram of where the tentacles of power lead. It's a lovely new interpretation of the American pioneerism: John Huston's Noah Cross serves as one of the more indelible and paradigmatic characters in recent movies. He singlehandedly demystifies the American dream. The connection he embodies between incest, political power and capitalism finds...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, Peter Kaplan, and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...conventional telephone hookup, sound waves entering a microphone are converted into electrical pulses, which travel along a copper wire to another phone, where they are converted back to sound waves. In a typical optical arrangement (see diagram), sound waves entering a telephone microphone are converted into electrical signals. These signals pass through an encoder, which converts them into electrical pulses that switch a laser on and off, interrupting a light beam being sent into the end of a fiber. The light thus travels in a series of pulses, not unlike Morse code, that race along the glass "wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Conversation | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Carter said he would admit the manual because it did not refer to any specific operation. But he turned down Browning's efforts to enter another document on the grounds that it was much too specific. The disputed item was a rough diagram of the floor plan of a North Sacramento branch of the Bank of America. The single sheet of paper carried a handwritten note by Patty: "saw 7 employees: 5 women & 2 men (1 young & nervous. Manager is fat & Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Plodder Scores Off the Idol | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: An Arcane Discipline | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mess Chart' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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