Word: spins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geysers area north of San Francisco is fed to a generating system and already supplies the equivalent of half the city's power. Far more commonplace wet-steam deposits have not yet become commercially productive in the U.S. They must be "flashed," or dried, before being used to spin generators...
...jump is a decision, a controlled movement. If I were in control. I would have stayed in my other life, watching the vagabonds move in and around my path. But in my free-fall, I have no control. I may eventually hit the sidewalk. I may spin here in mid air forever, continually fascinated by my four limbs, unattached to any points around me. I may suddenly swoop back up and find myself breathless on the top of the building. Not knowing my fate, I ponder my origin: Did I jump or did I fall? Am I in control...
...over the blue line to home in on Parent, he is lucky if he sees some shots as they leave a stick from behind a blur of battling skaters. Worse, many shots carom off players or their sticks in front of the goal; coming off curved sticks, slap shots spin so hard that they often drop like sinkers crossing home plate. None of these difficulties seem to trouble Parent: "If I see the puck leave the stick, I know exactly where it is going...
...Well, he is not quite remote. He often looks affectionately at Sheila while waiting around for the roommate to get dressed. This gets Sheila crazy. Finally, the doctor bares his sensitive soul: it seems that a girl looked at him and said "Yuck" when he tried to claim a spin-the-bottle reward at the age of 10. After that confession, the romance is a cinch. He kisses off the roommate, and approaches Sheila humbly and lovingly, like the good, lost little boy she always hoped...
Most of the frantic fun of the evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming...