Word: gusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this bastardization were not sufficient, a robust Lady Soul-like rendition of Let It Be swells through the theatre on the "exit" line. The play also opens with a recording of Let It Be, flooding the Loeb like a gust of Ban. Because Scott's show opens and closes so similarly, the play derives a structure which its content denies, it resolves issues which ought to remain at loose ends, and it manufactures corrugated conclusions where there should remain the gnawing anxieties of ambiguity. And what can Let It Be possibly have to do with Waiting for Godot? The voice...
...Each, he notes, was shorter than its precedent; each contained part of its successor. Yet from the beginning "people thought of changes as normal adjuncts to an agricultural and craft economy-the only basic one they have ever known." To anyone who has been struck by a gust of Bucky Fuller's technocratic sales pitches, the cheerful implications are clear: yet another extension of the telescope is contained within our society. Things like space programs are not the limits of technocracy: they herald the as yet undiscernible beginnings of some fresh epoch...
...forward economy-class cabin refused to close. Operated by compressed air, it jammed when a late-arriving passenger interrupted its automatic closing cycle, and mechanics had to labor for half an hour to reset the system. The 747 was taxiing away from the terminal when a sudden gust of wind blew directly in the exhaust vent of the right outboard engine, causing the fuel to flare up and overheat the engine. The plane had to be brought back to the terminal, and Pan Am rushed to roll out its only other service-ready 747 to take over the flight...
Hybrid, on the Day he arrived at the Experimental Station, though filled with a gust of evolutionary Passion, and a Dose of Spanish Fly: was blind, like a Bat, and clumsy as an Ox. But so was he let into the Bower of ever-kneeling Nature. And so came Nature to pass - pushing away Hybrid with a Rumble of Discontent - a fullgrown Flarb into the Hands of the astounded Agriculturalists...