Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sean F. Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms...
...bored lover, Mastroianni is superb, now freezing almost imperceptibly over some affront to his fairly rigid erotic code, now quivering with gleeful, guilty passion as he catches a scent of danger. But his solid performance is wasted in fleshing out a hollow comic premise. In the end, Casanova collapses into palaver about murder and morals in a frantic courtroom scene-the customary last stop for a comedy that has lost its case...
...wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built-in reaction absorber. When the astronaut presses the trigger, the motor near the handle compresses a spring with a brief quick twist. As the spring expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating end of the wrench. The rapid rotation and counterrotation of cylinder and motor all but cancel each other out and absorb about...
...Schieffelin, 47, Long Island socialite, only sister of New York City's Republican Congressman and Mayoral Candidate John Vliet Lindsay, wife of Boat Manufacturer Cooper Schieffelin; apparently of accidental drowning in the family estate's 40-ft. pool, where she swam every night before retiring; in Laurel Hollow...
...Cathedral of Learning as "The Height of Ignorance," and $2,000,000 to Duquesne. The Mellons are said to have soured on Litchfield's autocratic manner and his penchant for big-talk promotion. Litchfield announced in 1963, for example, a plan to roof over the 75-acre Panther Hollow as part of his Oakland redevelopment, and build an upside-down seven-level research and cultural center. Plans were later scaled down, and now are stalled...