Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British, whose Doppler system is built by Plessey Co., Ltd., insist that the U.S. scanning beam is clearly inferior. They also contend that computer simulations done for the FAA at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory were biased in favor of the American MLS. Some U.S. experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth...
When movies go as wrong as this manifestly expensive project has done, it is difficult to know where to begin-or to stop-criticizing them. But basically this potted history of what press releases cannot seem to resist calling "three turbulent decades" of the union's history, beginning in untutored idealism and ending in equally unconscious corruption, suffers from the same flaw as do the fictions that have slunk out from under Harold Robbins' overcoat in recent years: what might be called the substitution of analogy for insight. In other words, the writers who create them seem...
...always done before, Gelsey took steps. This time, though, her single-mindedness promised a confrontation with the demiurge of 20th century dance. Balanchine's classes are known for their remorseless speed. Gelsey not only sought the help of outside teachers, she dropped Balanchine's class entirely. What she wanted to learn from others was an approach that was both less punishing and more effective...
...rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says, "That's that, the shoes are comfortable, noiseless and hard...
...determining factor in the second period was Harvard's inability to take advantage of the wind as Dartmouth had done in the first half...