Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to reduce troublesome background noise caused by the random movement of atoms within metallic circuit components; the atoms are literally subdued by lower temperatures. Cryogenically cooled infra-red detectors used in astronomy, aerial mapping and antiaircraft missiles are many more times sensitive to heat than those operated at normal temperatures...
...dramatic program-ranging from Kabuki plays to slapstick to poetry reading-is broad enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
...theatrical language of the National Theater is the familiar signing of the deaf, abetted by skilled pantomime. To help audiences follow the action, two members of the company with normal hearing speak the lines-sometimes from the sidelines, sometimes onstage-synchronizing their words with the actors' gestures...
...Airline earnings were up or down depending on whether airlines had been hit by last year's third-quarter machinists' strike. TWA and National, both of which had been grounded by the strike, reported higher revenues this year because quarterly passenger loadings were back to normal. American Airlines, which was not affected by the strike, reported a profit drop from $25,035,000 to $22,280,000 because passenger business was not abnormally high, as it was during last year's third quarter...
...base live a proud major (Marlon Brando) and his vain wife (Elizabeth Taylor). An inept husband and worse horseman, Brando is continually left at the post while Taylor goes riding with her lover (Brian Keith). Keith's wife (Julie Harris) is a housebound psychotic who he insists is normal until Taylor throws him one of the more memorable lines of her or anyone else's film career: "She cut off her nipples with a pair of garden shears-you call that normal? Garden shears...