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...never try hard," said Vag as he released the clutch. He kept his gas pedal floored as he whirled his way from first to second and then to third gear. At the peak of the hill he downshifted and screeched into the first turn into the circle. Through the turn he went into third and then, entering the far turn, he downshifted again, waved to a photographer, smiled at the girl who waved the green flag, and screeched off. A few moments later he stepped out of the car and heard his time announced on the public address system...
...must be assumed that it will fail, and it must be designed so that its failure will do minimal or no harm. Fail Safe on U.S. railroads, for example, means "the dead man's throttle." If an engineer dies at the controls, his pressure on a foot pedal or hand lever is released, and the train automatically goes into an emergency stop. Fail Safe at SAC means that SAC bomber crews, launched in an alert, do not proceed toward their preassigned target beyond a preassigned coordinate point without a coded follow-up command. Only beyond the Fail Safe point...
...Camp works in ice and acid, Pianist Prince-Joseph, in his album Anything Goes (RCA Camden), coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs...
Pass: Well, you know there's something called starting friction; now on this ice here, when you put the car in low gear and step on your pedal, you've got too much oomph under you to catch...
...expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note-the whine of the gnat, the organ pedal diapasoning, the boom of the bittern, are among its musical accompaniments. The old person is assumed, and often affects to be, all of a piece-disgusting, pitiful, pretentious, peevish, noble, ingratiating, moody, and so on. It is really more varied, a seductive combination of increased wisdom and decaying powers...