Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That he is. Decked out in the Guitar Suit, which he designed with Los Angeles Couturier Bill Witten out of a rubbery fabric called stretch laurex, Hartman simply inserts the bottom of his electric guitar into a pelvic pocket, much the way a mother kangaroo snuggles her baby into her pouch. From electrodes in the pocket, the signal is fed through wires sewed into the linings to a cigarette-pack-sized transmitter housed in a thigh pocket. Via an aerial laced down the right leg, the impulse is broadcast to the main amplifier backstage and then blasted into the auditorium...
This psychic violence gathers beneath a fine membrane of civility. Remarkably, Pinter succeeds in creating a fabric of conversation that contains and covers the anxieties and animosities, without ever concealing them. Subtly, urbanely, the characters bring these elemental passions to the surface in the guise of recollections, much in the same way that instincts take form in the symbols of dreams. But this delicate control is tenuous, and the volcanic passions can erupt with dreadful impact at any time. When this happens, the damage is, as Pinter says, "irrevocable...
...have devised a solution that sounds like the punch line of some sort of Italian joke: rubber dams. But the sponsors of the plan-Pirelli, the famous tire company, and Furlanis, a construction firm-are dead serious about it. They propose installing hollow, expandable dams made of rubber-coated fabric across the three channels. The dams, which would measure from 1,698 ft. to 3,000 ft. in length, would lie on the seabed, held firmly in place by steel cables anchored to concrete pilings. Most of the time they would remain flat, allowing ships to pass over them into...
...project is technically feasible," says Pirelli Engineer Attilio Angioletti. Lab tests have shown that the tirelike rubber fabric has a tensile strength of 2.5 tons per sq. in.-enough to withstand the battering of any sea. To test the system further, Pirelli and Furlanis are now building a 220-ft.-long "baby" dam at the mouth of another lagoon. If it works as well as expected, the Italian government will consider funding dighe di gomma for Venice...
...every turn, Ford found himself fighting a two-front war. Clamping down hard to restrain the inflation threatening the financial fabric of the nation could tip the economy into a deep recession...