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Presence--Led Zeppelin, Swan Song. Instead of buying this album, take a handful of reds, turn the bass knob on your stereo all the way up, and call me in the morning...
...shows we watched each night. TV was the only reason we were friends. He would come over to my house on weekends, and we would watch a horror movie on the GE television my great-grandmother had given me when I was eight. Once, when the channel selector knob on my parents' TV broke off, I used a pair of pliers to turn the rod around, proudly telling my folks what network they were watching as I recognized each show. I was five at the time...
...supplied electricity for Midwest farms. Then the cheap power brought by the New Deal's rural electrification program finally made most of the durable fixtures obsolete. During World War II, a giant 110-ft, 1,250-kilowatt wind-driven generator built on a hill called Grandpa's Knob outside Rutland, Vt., created a flurry of renewed interest in wind power -until one of the monster machine's eight-ton blades, weakened by metal fatigue, tore off and hurtled 750 ft. into the air before crash-landing...
...York Philharmonic prefers 441. Since the pitch of an ordinary organ-pipe or electronic-is immensely difficult to change, touring orchestras never bring along "organ works. But Carnegie's new Rodgers can be tuned from 435 to 445, or anywhere in between, with the turn of a single knob. Says Rodgers Co.'s tonal director, Allan Van Zoeren: "In this case, one pitch is worth a lot more than 1,000 words...
...your feet. In "the long slant of light that means good walking," she points out the sights: the creek, 17 ft. wide; a favorite Osage orange tree; a sycamore log bridge; a tiny grassy island; a quarry; woods leading up to the Blue Ridge Mountains: Brushy, McAfee's Knob, Dead...