Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This movie, culled from the '72 tour, captures the Rolling Stones at their best. They play their instruments and perform even better than they play their roles of satanic majesties and sated superstars. As if to rebut all the preshrunk philosophy and opinion-mongering, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones contains no interviews with pundits, no chats with enraptured audience members, no cinema verite lowdowns about what went on behind the scenes. The music is all, and it is plenty...
...molecule: the higher the "binding energy" that holds it together, the less likely it is to lose electrons. The chemists recently told the American Physical Society that two or more small molecules with a large enough difference in binding energies might be combined into one large molecule that could perform electronic functions...
...precise spacing between donor and acceptor points to avoid the molecular version of a short circuit may be difficult, Aviram and Ratner admit. But, adds IBM Physicist Philip Seiden, chemists are already skilled at manipulating molecular structure and might be able to build molecular devices that will some day perform all the chores of today's tiny chips...
Penn comes into the race undefeated, after defeating Yale by a considerable 15-second margin last weekend. Most of the spectators won't be watching how Penn does, however, but rather how Harvard and rival Wisconsin perform in their respective meets, and sizing up next week's sprints from there...
...hired Wayne the Wizard to fly in from the Virgin Islands to perform a magic show. He sent invitations to all the black diplomats and sent limousines out to have them picked up, and they all showed up and they hadn't been invited..." Which clears up the mystery of what happened to The Wizard of Oz when the balloon burst. 8 at Dunster House; there's a review on page 2, I believe...