Word: reset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble with nostalgia is that is has no sense of discrimination. One moment that wonderful year is 1944, the next it is 1932 or 1920. Nostalgia demands only that you recall a few tunes, reset your hair, and throw in some period slang. If it's old, if it's quaint, if it's not too memorable, it can only be nostalgic...
Once again, captain Tom Spengler was the winner by 100 yards or so, turning in a fast 26:18 over the 5.5 mile course. It was only 11 seconds off his course record, and had anyone pushed him at all, it seems certain he would have reset the record...
...electric eyes inform a minicomputer, which in turn controls a pair of hydraulic pumps that can rotate and tilt the heliostat into th proper position. Only one manual ad justment is needed to operate the heliostats. It is made at the end of the day, when they must be reset to face the position of the next day's sunrise...
There is a further distinction between the treatment of Tina and the treatment of Frank. Tina talks of her friends, and Frank talks of abstract things like class structure and values. The curious reset is that although one might expect them to be more mundane, the things Tina says are more powerful. When you talk about society or life in general, you often make generalizations and simplifications. When talking honestly about things closer to yourself, however, you reveal the internal contradictions and conflicts that are in everyone. I suppose that is the moral of this review that in the details...
Engine Trouble. First off, the main portside door in the forward economy-class cabin refused to close. Operated by compressed air, it jammed when a late-arriving passenger interrupted its automatic closing cycle, and mechanics had to labor for half an hour to reset the system. The 747 was taxiing away from the terminal when a sudden gust of wind blew directly in the exhaust vent of the right outboard engine, causing the fuel to flare up and overheat the engine. The plane had to be brought back to the terminal, and Pan Am rushed to roll out its only...