Word: mach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cast a wide net, scrabble up and down from period to period, a scale intimate like Proust's madeleine and yet grand and popular. How did people do this before? Should I Mach Three today, or go for a barbershop shave with strop and blade? Send someone a letter, or an e-mail? Do I touch-type it up, or take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy...
...photography, this year's studio theme, "The Body," emphasizes the contemporary art world's renewed interest in figuration since the late 1970s. This subject has clearly provided fodder for many of the works in the show, which range from earnest and literal to playful and abstract. Small paper mach'e sculptures by Jennifer E. Mergel '98 sprout lively appendages from their baseball or bagel-shaped body blobs. In one, two straining neuron-like beings wrestle or dance with the energetic whipping of their interconnected arms. Nearby, another languishes on its side, exhaling through some great orifice or wound--an opening...
...Line Pilots Association (ALPA), will continue their encroachment on APA's turf. "The term regional jet is a misnomer," says Captain Rich Rubin, 47, who pilots a wide-body 767 on long-haul routes out of Miami. "It is a long-range, high-performance jet that flies at Mach .81 at 40,000 ft., like a 767. It will deprive us of our routes, and it will replace MD80s and F-100s [existing 100-seat-plus jets]. With this jet, Pocatello, Idaho, to Dallas becomes a profitable route...
...Blackbird, originally designed in the 1960s for US Air Force strategic reconnaissance, set the record for flying at Mach...
...least 85,000 feet [26 kilometers] and can fly at as fast as Mach 3," says Podolske. "But, as the air goes through the shockwave, it heats...