Word: heartbeating
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...early stuff is still great. We are startled, on the amazing Blue Moon, by his trick of shifting, in a heartbeat, from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career...
...falling apart. He has been aboard the aging space station since February and has had to cope with nonstop crises: a fire, breakdowns in oxygen and cooling systems, a collision with a cargo ship and last week a power failure. No wonder he's suffering from an irregular heartbeat and taking sedatives...
...seem to take Tsibliyev's struggles seriously. "We've been hearing his complaints of the workload being too heavy since the first day of the flight," one of them told the Associated Press. They seem to be worrying more. It turns out Tsibliyev first noticed changes in his heartbeat in late June, right after the collision. Even though he was ordered to take it easy last week, he worked through the night to repair the power break. Reporters at mission control heard Igor Goncharov, the chief physician, speaking sternly to Tsibliyev: "Vasily, I insist that you have some rest. Vasily...
...twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing it to pulse with a heartbeat-like lub-dub. This rhythmic motion churns up internal heat, which in turn stirs up moonwide volcanoes...
...heartbeat. I'm looking forward to next year...