Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifty yards away at the Pix-Pall Hardwarestore, talk was of fuse boxes and the recession...
Tavilla recalls one time, however, when he was forced on stage. The glass in a resonance experiment, he says, just wouldn't break, like it was supposed to. A fuse was blown and he had to readjust the instruments, in front of the 500 person class...
...week's end the maker of the SS7 network, DSC Communications, declared that flaws in its own software had triggered the plague of busy signals and dial tones. The Texas-based company said it would make alterations in the affected phone systems that should act "like a fuse on a power line" and prevent small glitches from escalating into major breakdowns...
...enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron can't quite deliver on the promise of his premise...
...Williams fails to fuse these individual performances into a strong vision of Othello--indeed, she fails to display any profound vision at all. It is unfortunate that such a vital and ever-timely script must, like Othello himself, be smote thus...