Word: inwardness
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...four or 36 legs. She does an imitation of a dinosaur that would bring Alley Oop on the run, and she takes off a pukka colonel so vividly that the onlooker can hear his imaginary wattles flapping. But what Lynn begins by mimicking she ends by understanding; she works inward from the comic gestures to the tragic core of a character...
...snakes, resents childbirth, old age, her husband's masculinity (or lack of it), the act of love, a male universe, and possibly George Washington's birthday. The husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each other and emerge as One, shrieking. It is better to have loved and flipped than never to have loved...
...ordinary tire, can be inflated when needed with a Freon gas can. Developed by B. F. Goodrich, the minispare is guaranteed to last 1,000 miles, will retail at $32.80. Goodrich is also working on a tire whose sidewalls, in the event of a puncture, will fold inward, leaving the tread to form a tight, flexible band around the wheel. Former Chrysler President William C. Newberg's entry may be the most novel of all. The device, called PosiTrac, is a steel rim fixed to the metal wheel inside an ordinary tire, capped with a thick rubber tread...
...sudden fascination with building bridges to Eastern Europe. For the first time since World War II, Europe feels that it has the strength and stature to shape its own destiny. So far, the most insistent influence on that destiny has been Charles de Gaulle, who wants an inward-looking Europe of independent yet friendly fatherlands extending from the Channel to the Urals-and free from U.S. influence...
...upon the first stage of restoring his speech. To make sure that Lopata's reconstructed windpipe would not let food into his lungs, they built an artificial valve just below the base of his tongue (see diagram) by cutting into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next phase...