Word: parabolas
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...roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters his drink on his lap, butts him with her head and finally, as she brushes by a blazing dish of crepes suzette, goes up in flames...
...flying high and level, faster than sound, and pushing the plane's nose up into the Keplerian trajectory, in which centrifugal force exactly cancels the earth's gravitational pull. Despite his plane's vast speed reserve, he chose to work at lower altitudes, enter the parabola from a power dive (see diagram). Over "hot mikes" (both microphones always switched on, so that each of us could hear the other's breathing), he asked simply: "Ready...
...first parabola of the second series, I flipped over the thigh pad to tackle the first problem: multiply 13 by .9. The reaction was surprising. Squinting over the oxygen mask, I could not be sure whether there was a decimal point in the multiplier or just a speck in the paper. Irrationally, I felt hostile to Brattkus for not having been more careful. Just as irrationally, the decision I had to make (was it a decimal point or wasn't it?) seemed momentously important. I got off this dilemma by doing the multiplication, writing the answers for both possibilities...
...Author Hogben approaches modern times, he takes his readers painlessly through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, through Descartes to Karl Gauss. Just as painlessly, he introduces them to algebra, the laws of acceleration, the concepts of mass and weight, binary numbers, and the graph plottings of the parabola and the ellipse. But his major accomplishment will be to give his readers the notion of mathematics as a major part of their heritage...
...state of religious architecture as "anarchy," with good and bad sprouting together in the search for newness and originality. But the best designers build on the basic requirement of all religious buildings: that they produce in worshipers a sense of closeness to one another and aspiration to God. The parabola has become an increasingly popular form, especially in Roman Catholic churches, which use it to symbolize the open arms of Christ drawing His people to Him, as in St Louis' Church of the Resurrection of our Lord and the Catholic Chapel of Brandeis University's Interfaith Center...