Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK into Elijah Adlow's courtroom and you want to get out. The courtroom is a jail cell; its high flat walls move square around you, and the windows are slatted with iron. But unlike a jail cell, which offers some sanctuary, Adlow's courtroom is thoroughly menacing. You are intimidated by the judge, by the bailiffs with their thick chins and thin lips, by the chuckling old men who come to watch every day, and mostly by the walls that hold you inside--even if you are a free man, as I was Thursday, just a spectator...
...REPERTORY COMPANY presides over two drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...
...communiqué-indeed, the U.S. Embassy sent such verbatim quotes on to Washington-but the deal was never really confirmed. This, in turn, suggests that the Americans may have missed subtle South Vietnamese hints prior to the halt; after all, Saigon never liked to give the American ambassador a flat no on anything. When Thieu finally did on Nov. 1, his veto was all the more unsettling because it seemed so out of character...
...tracing long, soaring lines out of detailed figurations, and an innately tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents of Chopin's emotion. There is an urgency in the scherzo, a brooding pathos in the famous funeral march, a bizarre mysteriousness in the final skittering...
Hole in the Doughnut. Aero-Go's gadget goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...