Word: perpendicular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towing outfit who gave me the right number, who indeed had the car, at Fresh Pond, for $50. Reinspection of the site of the crime yielded damning evidence: There are warning signs on the abutting building, but none on the road or sidewalk, and none whatsoever posted perpendicular to the driver's point of view...
...fact, some astronomers have long suspected that it was a catastrophic event, perhaps a collision with an earth-size object, that toppled Uranus on its side (see chart); it spins with its rotational axis practically perpendicular to those of most of the other planets. The spacecraft raised even more questions about Uranus when it discovered that the planet has a magnetic field about as strong as earth's but topsy-turvy by terrestrial standards, with the north magnetic pole displaced by 55 degrees from the south geographic pole. The odd arrangement led scientists to speculate that Voyager had caught...
...Perpendicular to that section, though, is what might be termed the "aisle of doom," which includes 10 brands of ice cream and frozen yogurt, 61 types of ice cream sandwiches, and 15 varieties of potato and corn chips...
FOOTNOTE: *Uranus lies on its side, its axis of rotation more or less perpendicular to those of the other eight planets. Its north pole now points at the sun and thus receives more solar radiation than other regions of the planet...
Wendy Wasserstein, whose very name is a deadpan joke on Jewish assimilation into the cheerleader values of Middle America, writes about Jews and Wasps without a tincture of sitcom condescension, finding poignant similarities in perpendicular lives, giving just about every character equal time and a fair number of laughs. Director Gerald Gutierrez has mined the big, handsome virtues in this deceptively modest play, putting a shine on everything from the show tunes and rock standards to the voices on Janie's telephone-answering machine (including the desperate plaints of Meryl Streep, in her best and most hilarious performance...