Word: foams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clenchings and wrigglings of the operator's fist can change the expression with considerable subtlety. Not simply smiles, but wistful smiles are possible. If the face is relatively stiff, like that of Kermit's formidable friend Miss Piggy ( her head is carved from a block of plastic insulating foam), then, although a certain degree of meaningful nose crinkling is possible, expressiveness is largely an illusion created by body movement and voice. In either case, the puppeteer can synchronize the figure's lip movements to its speech, a technique Henson originated early in his career. Muppet jaws do not move with...
Though turn-of-the-century sewage control projects provided temporary improvement, they could not keep pace with the swelling population. After World War II, efforts at purification were set back further: detergents and other chemical effluents left the lower Thames covered with foam, literally choking the river to death. Deprived of oxygen, one fish species after another vanished. River passengers became ill from the rotten-egg aroma of hydrogen sulfide rising from the polluted waters...
...girls come into flower on the beaches. They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen for reflection concern the values of action vs. creation: "I ought not to have written; if the world were clear, art would not exist...
...used carriage bolts, foam pontoons, a rudder and rocket engine, a tank of carbon dioxide and two bicycles for wheel power, Alan Stern '79, one of the builders said yesterday...
...past decade, Rossignol's capacity has risen twentyfold, to 2 million skis a year of wood, metal, plastic and fiber-glass foam. Because cross-country skis are booming, Boix-Vives plans to double capacity in that department this year to 350,000 skis. But his strategy involves more than expansion of capacity. As volume grew in the mid-'60s, the company's increased productivity enabled Boix-Vives to adopt a policy of, as he puts it, "aggressive pricing"; Rossignol prices stayed completely stable from 1964 all the way to 1972. Today Rossignol produces eight principal lines...