Word: maw
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...Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last...
Tucked away in an unremarkable industrial building on the outskirts of town is a little machine about the size of a three-drawer filing cabinet. There's a curious Willy Wonka look to it. Feed a bit of metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...
...jobs, being wonderful in black churches and playing golf with Vernon Jordan. But that was all window dressing, the easy stuff, and he never did much for poor black people. He signed a crime bill that made it very difficult for poor black guys who get caught in the maw. When the rubber hits the road, on stuff like welfare reform or crime bills, that guy is not on our side...
...bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside its maw to swing the giant clapper between them. The brute force of that bronze behemoth and its lesser brothers, spilling out into the drowsy air of the Square, is well worth a dissonance...
...hiding of the institutional trappings succeeds fabulously. The serving area is far removed from the dining hall proper, and the salad bar and gaping maw of the tray return are blocked off with a tasteful privacy wall whose carving design is echoed in the columns that mark off the "oasis" from the rest of the dining area--unifying the separating elements of the space. (This is opposed to Quincy, where the separating elements are unified by a similar "ribbed" design but where the salad bar juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from...