Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fists brought forth hard, crashing sounds. He touched index finger to thumb to produce tiny streams of pizzicato noises. Occasionally a player would press down a trumpet valve without blowing, and let it go just for the click. Or another would blow through a trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color-crazy sound in which dense sonic images were rent by small plinks as sharp and gleaming as broken glass...
...eyed architect of these events hopes that her myths "are speaking out against imposed authority, against ruts and for change." At 48, she no longer dances regularly, but is busily experimenting with new variations of her myth form. So far she has concocted something called "rituals" (which are, in effect, mini-myths) and "twos" (which require participants to act as couples throughout). Next month, at Los Angeles' Music Center, she will stage her most ambitious undertaking to date: a Watts myth. "It will not be a black-white confrontation," she says, "but rather a recognition of ourselves through color...
...voter doesn't want to be able to identify with the First Lady. He wants to look up to her." To put Pat on the proper pinnacle, Beene suggests a severe hairdo and tailored clothes in muted, neutral colors. Tailoring is evident in the waist-coat-and-shirt effect that Beene created in his evening gown for Mrs. Nixon...
...reagents, scientists can set off any one of a few thousand bio chemical reactions in an hour or two, but they need to generate unnaturally high temperatures to do the job. Nature can instantly produce millions, or possibly billions, of such reactions at normal body temperature. The agents that effect such biological miracles are enzymes, commonly referred to as "nature's catalysts." They provide no nourishment to animal or man, yet they are essential to the metabolism of all creatures. They are the honest brokers or middlemen of life, mediating countless actions between living creatures and their environment...
That warning was Eastern's way of pressing for changes in FAA restrictions on airport traffic scheduled to go into effect in April. Aimed at relieving air congestion in the Chicago-New York-Washington "Golden Triangle," the restrictions affect operations at five airports -New York's John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark, Washington's National and Chicago's O'Hare. Eastern objects to an FAA proposal that would rigidly limit takeoffs and landings by all commercial and private planes to 60 an hour at Newark and La Guardia. That would restrict its ability...