Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure many will object that of what is included too much is pornographic. Advance notice on the book made it sound like a singular piece of middlebrow porno that would bring about a best-selling marriage between the wandering tribe of former Salinger aficionadoes and Jacqueline Susann's camp followers. But Roth reads so quickly and so engagingly that much of what could pass for smut is more parody than prurience. The book lacks the turgid seriousness that marked Updike's Couples as a more perfect example of the genre. Portnoy--who admits to being "the Raskolnikov of jerking...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...source of the trouble was the upper surface of the conventional wing, which has a convex curve to provide lift.* When the plane reaches about 80% of the speed of sound, however, the velocity of the air flowing over the upper side of the wing reaches the sonic barrier. A shock wave forms about half way back from the wing's leading edge, disturbing the airflow and increasing drag-the resistance of air to the plane's passage...
Also Television. Warner-Lambert has sound reason to speak plainly. When the company first tested small-size, slyly indirect newspaper ads for Pristeen in San Diego and Pittsburgh, the results were indifferent. A later test, using direct, full-page ads in Atlanta and upstate New York papers, as well as more colorful packaging, brought an enthusiastic response. According to Ed Vi-mond, president of Warner-Lambert's products division, that test showed that "80% of adult women are interested in purchasing such a deodorant." Alberto-Culver and its agency, N. W. Ayer, advertise FDS on TV as well...
Setting aside a "Boston After Dark Day" is not as frivolous as it may sound; Boston has opened up in the past few years--there are more small theatres, more special rates for students. "We've made the college student a first-class citizen in the market-place of Boston," Lewis said. And according to Kenneth S. Opin, BAD's newest staff member (pipe and three-piece suit), who up until this week had handled advertising for such entertainment businesses as the Charles Playhouse and Sack Theatres, the number of small residence theatres in Boston has more than tripled since...