Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like ordinary sphygmomanometers, they work by measuring the surge of arterial blood that occurs immediately after the tightened cuff is slightly released. The major difference is that the precise moment of maximum flow, when the heart is pumping hardest-represented by the upper, or systolic, blood pressure-and that of minimum flow, or diastolic reading, are not determined by a doctor or technician listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon...
...heart of the R.H.E. is the unfortunately named "Colorpedia": 1,792 pages of essays and picture spreads intended to "cover the entire thematic flow of subject matter from the Universe." The graphic results, especially in the area of the natural sciences, are striking; a meat-and-salad sandwich, for example, is used to illustrate varieties of molecular structure...
...more fair to the transfers to spread them out among the houses where they could get into the flow right away--it adds to the Quad's isolation by putting 62 new students there," Binnie, who lived in Currier House last year but has since moved to Lowell House, said...
...temptation to forgive Chabrol for this excess is formidable; the story deals with a depraved woman, and the humiliation meted out to her seems apt. But in so doing, the director irreparably damages the flow of the narrative, and the next transition only calls attention to his oversight. Realizing that he has abandoned the intrepid detectives in the mid-stream of their investigation, Chabrol suddenly thrusts them back into the picture as a not-so-subtle afterthought. The policemen somehow fasten onto the idea that the husband--long ago presumed to have been the victim of a murder they cannot...
...timing is judicious. But Chabrol seems unable to grasp the delicacy that this device requires. The authorities' periodic attempts to sort out the more baffling knots in the narrative come off as hopelessly contrived, and Chabrol's vain effort to draw a confused viewer back into the uneven flow of the story merely succeeds in driving him further away...