Word: instrumentality
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...decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has required airlines to provide pilots with oxygen masks and goggles to shield them from smoke in the cockpit. But thick smoke can also prevent pilots from seeing their instruments or the view through their windshields. That concern has moved scores of owners and operators of corporate jets, from Prudential Insurance to Planet Hollywood, to install a $9,915 Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there...
...says. "They can come and take me to the Hague, and I'd welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes on the gusle, a primitive, one-stringed instrument that produces a noise akin to the bleating of sheep, Djogo says, "All Herzegovina will rise to defend...
...release of the band's second record, Cale followed a career of producing albums for artists as diverse as Nico, Patti Smith, The Stooges and Siouxsie and the Banshees. His solo albums range from rock to avant-garde classical music, with Cale playing acoustic guitar, keyboard and nearly every instrument in between...
...brain is a delicate instrument with too much complex wiring; all the data give him ferocious migraines. Yet it is the brain of this loopy mathematician (Sean Gullette) that makes him a captive of powerful groups with dark designs--some Wall Street sharpies and a coven of Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after...
...Going back to what you said earlier--that you play music--what instrument do you play...