Word: screws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serving some version of chicken picatta, and you're in the mood for some fresh bread. The only problem is that the wait at everyone's favorite Brattle Square pizza joint constantly hovers between 70 and 90 minutes. The outdoor folk music gets annoying, and the servers always screw up your drink order anyway...
Years ago, in an Oxford tutorial, I taught a young woman who affected an unusual habit. When asked a question that required deep thought, she would screw her eyes tight shut, jerk her head down to her chest and then freeze for up to half a minute before looking up, opening her eyes and answering the question with fluency and intelligence. I was amused by this and did an imitation of it to divert my colleagues after dinner. Among them was a distinguished Oxford philosopher. As soon as he saw my imitation, he immediately said, "That's Wittgenstein...
...Young people screw with their minds with a variety of common bedtime behavior don ts. Cramming for work with too many all-nighters, catching z s at irregular hours or going to bed in noisy environments can induce a state of chronic insomnia, debilitating both physical performance and mental cognition. >=For people in good health, the occasional event is nothing to worry about. But if you create a bad habit, you re going to end up fatigued, your mood is going to change and your performance will be impaired,=It knocks you out, but you wake up a few hours...
...idea was to spice the old format with smart comers--Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Omar Epps (Higher Learning) and Giovanni Ribisi (the medic in Saving Private Ryan)--and a screw-you modernity. Instead, director and co-writer Scott Silver (Johns) gives us a surly anti-toon; it's the Three Sociopathic Stooges with lots of Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around...
...back to control its tendency to yaw from side to side. They devised a pulley system that warped the shape of the wings in midflight to turn the plane and to stop it from rolling laterally in air. Recognizing that a propeller isn't like a ship's screw, but becomes, in effect, a rotating wing, they used the data from their wind-tunnel experiments to design the first effective airplane props--a pair of 8-ft. propellers, carved out of laminated spruce, that turned in opposite directions to offset the twisting effect on the machine's structure. And when...