Word: pinion
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...that for most of the elderly the villain is old age. Bodies wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...
...inspector general examined price increases from 1980 through 1982 for nearly 15,000 aircraft engine parts and discovered about 65% of the prices had risen by more than 50%; 4,000 items had ballooned by more than 500% and some by more than 1,000%. A gear-and-pinion assembly supplied by Bendix Corp. jumped from $31.59 to $546, a rise of 1,628%. A spare part from Britain's Rolls-Royce was marked up from $3.70 to $54.75, an increase of 1,380%. Inflation over this period...
...predominantly monochromatic works of the U.S.'s Jasper Johns, 37, and Spain's Antoni Tapies, 44. Tapies' composition No. 39 shows a somberly dramatic doorway opening onto a mottled moonscape marked by tiny red crosses ("It signifies my whole life," explains Tapies). Johns's Pinion is a prime illustration of Krzisnik's "alienation," since it literally depersonalizes one of Johns's zanier collages, which includes a wax arm and a ruler, by reproducing a ghostly, photographic image of it in watery red, yellow and pale blue, together with the grey smears of foot, hand...
...speed is 78 m.p.h. against 74 m.p.h. for the Volkswagen bug; it gets 38 miles to the gallon against Renault's 39. While far from fancy, the plastic interior trim is durable. Its two front bucket seats fold back for sleeping, and the car's rack-and-pinion steering makes for good road-holding quality...
...Shannon nevertheless blames the Irish Catholic clergy for most Irish shortcomings in the U.S. The clergy were too busy building the church to bother about intellectual pursuits, and warned their congregations not to mix with the Protestant population. "The conservatives of the church," writes Shannon, "struggled to ensnare and pinion the live corpus of the faithful in their own petty vision, a vision of a claustral parish world: tidy, thick-curtained, breathing of dust, every antimacassar firmly in place...