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...piece, Kyr also uses an unusual spatial arrangement of sound. "Struggles in Passing," a dance mime about the nature of work, is accompanied both by a tape produced using subway noises and conversations, and by the ensemble of flute, tow clarinets, celesta and piano. The sounds of the instruments filter in from outside of the theater hall, while the tape is projected directly into the hall. The mimes move between a pastoral, smooth kind of work and more isolated, abstract industrial motions, supported by two levels and qualities of sound...
...other end of the sprawling building, in the 24-hr.-a-day maintenance department, 35 mechanics and helpers stand ready to do everything from change a 100-lb. tire in 20 min. to make an oil and filter change in 40. There are four en closed repair bays, and sometimes the big rigs are lined up three and four deep waiting for service. At another bay, an automatic truck wash with 16-ft. brushes scours the outsides of 55-ft.-long tractor trailers in eight minutes at a cost...
...serious business of the summit began at 11 a.m., when Carter ushered Teng to his seat at the highly polished mahogany table in the Cabinet Room. "May I smoke?" asked the Vice Premier, pulling out a pack of Chinese-made Panda filter-tip cigarettes. Soon the air was thick with smoke. And soon the two leaders discovered that they liked dealing with each other. There was no posturing and no haggling during the three face-to-face sessions. At one point, Michel Oksenberg, the National Security Council's China specialist, slid a scribbled note across the table to Presidential...
...more ships of fools than any other modern writer. There is also much seasickness that often resem bles a queasiness with the world itself. In the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) a middle-aged writer suffers paranoid hallucinations while cruising to Ceylon. Voices of passengers plotting murder and humiliation filter into his ears from parts of the ship. The author acknowledged that he too suffered hallucinatory episodes, and Pinfold's curmudgeonly character and opinions are essentially...
Teng was clad in his usual dark gray Mao suit with black shoes and light gray socks. Puffing incessantly on Chinese-made Panda filter cigarettes, he spoke animatedly, gesticulating with his right hand and at times banging his hands together sharply to stress a point...