Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Scofield is a precision instrument. His performances are full of small gestures, asides and intuitions that are subtle, telling, always right. He is the master of inflection and implication if not, perhaps, of epic passion, which is why a Scofield Uncle Vanya is more successful than a Scofield Lear...
...Bell System began installing pushbutton phones a few years ago, it had great expectations. The new phones would enable users to make faster connections than the old dial variety. What Ma Bell did not anticipate, however, was that the pushbutton phone would become America's newest musical instrument...
This change of attitude is not a sudden one; it began after the Second World War and has evolved during two decades. The Houses should have provided a perfect instrument of response to it, and if they have not always done so, it is because it had been hard for those who run them, and who remember an earlier golden era, to realize that the very beauty of the system is its adaptability to new concepts of education and community, not its reflection of the ideals of a particular period. A great change was the decentralization into the Houses...
...left with two hours of Napoleon sitting in his villas, suffering cardiac spasms-a mild attack while mounting Billie Whitelaw, a worse one while mounting a horse-and grinding out fatuities like "Power is my art; I love it the way a musician loves his instrument." The routine virtuosity of good professional actors fills the gaps-but only with the kind of narcissism that mocks the story. No eagle, caged or free, could survive this taxidermy...
...minds of nearly 700 scientists who gathered at the Manned Spacecraft Center for the third lunar science conference. For most, it was a highly profitable trip. The conferees exchanged reams of data from last year's flight of Apollo 14 and received more recent information from the instruments taken to the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts. Among other things, the scientists were told that the moon, as measured by temperature probes placed in the lunar surface, seems to be giving off heat at twice the rate of the earth, though skeptics suggested that instrument malfunction may have caused...