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...puts them all to work with a "stand-up" system. Many goalies use a flop-and-stop technique, dropping to their knees or falling all the way into a split to block the puck with their heavy leg pads. The maneuver has two drawbacks: the 6-oz. vulcanized rubber disk can slip between his legs as the goalie flops; and once he is on the ice, he is helpless against rebound shots. Parent's approach, copied from his idol and teacher, Stand-Up Master Jacques Plante, requires more finesse but provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers start...
...seem best-suited to the humorous, thematic dances in the program. The performance begins with Anaendrom which, as the title suggests, parodies a futuristic society. The music is eerie and electronic, reminiscent of something from the Outer Limits. As the curtain rises, one dancer lies lifeless on a rotating disk. Suddenly, a man wearing a shower cap drops from an elevated box. As the scene develops, several dancers interlock their bodies to form an assortment of odd-shaped machines. Arms, fingers, and legs move in an ingenious staccato fashion to simulate gears and cogs. While these fanciful contraptions pump, point...
...result, they form a huge disk-shaped magnetic field; the electrons and protons that swirl within it create powerful electrical currents that may discharge lightning bolts all the way to Io, the innermost of Jupiter's nine moons...
...cylinder; the emerging gas is cooled and then moves toward an adjacent cylinder where heat is applied once more and the process is repeated. As the gas shuttles between interconnected cylinders, the pistons move back and forth and piston rods push against a so-called swash plate, or disk...
...innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury is almost always obscured by the sun's harsh glare. Under the best viewing conditions, it never appears as more than a hazy disk in earth-bound telescopes. Last week, as the Mariner 10 passed only 400 miles from the planet, some of the mystery about Mercury was finally dispelled. Radioing back the first close-up pictures of the Mercurian surface, the robot ship unveiled a bleak, cratered and totally forbidding world...