Word: glides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Superconductors have already been put to impressive use. They are essential to the powerful electromagnets in the huge particle smashers used by physicists and to the magnets that levitate superfast trains called maglevs and enable them to glide above their tracks. To do the job, however, these superconductors must be kept at very low temperatures (around 4 degreesK) through the use of liquid helium, an expensive and hard-to-handle coolant. The goal of current research is to produce superconductors that can perform their magic at less frigid temperatures that are easier to reach and maintain. What's exciting about...
...effortlessly glide to my left and, at the last second, flip a backhand shot over an outstretched glove into the net. Goal...
From the streamlined funk of Tomorrow's Girls to the bouncy saunter of Countermoon, the songs find a groove and gather momentum as breezy vocals and serpentine horn charts glide over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...
...minute piece opens with the seven women in the slinky velveteen dresses of costume designer Frances Kenny. With the help of Alexander Heddinger's eerie lighting, the women's bodies seem to glow from within. They glide solemnly across the stage, occasionally sinking to the floor or collapsing into one another's arms. Sometimes they pause in a dreamy tableaux, their arms reaching toward the heavens. At times, however, the religious motif becomes too heavy-handed, as when six women lift the seventh into a distinct crucifixion pose and walk reverently in a circle with her body...
...mastery of this latter skill that makes his technique so memorable and distinct. The way he can glide over the keyboard almost levitating the sound is in sharp contrast to the way that he extracts vital energy out of pieces by Mussorgsky. Dynamism and contrast. These two words summarize the appearance (though not the nature) of his technique...