Word: spools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hayes found out, but he says he wasn't offended in fact, he says he learned something from the paper, "Sometimes you learn things that bother people when they spool won in a way that tells you something," he says...
...scientists had high praise for the ingenuity shown by the men in orbit, like Mission Specialist Robert Parker, whose deft use of a sleeping bag provided a cover of darkness while he reloaded a jammed spool of film. Said one Houston observer, University of Naples Physicist Luigi Napolitano: "You know, without those guys, the mission would have been a failure on the first day." The astronauts also found time to clown for the TV cameras and take telephone calls from President Reagan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. But some problems simply had to be endured, like the accumulation...
...return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work without conflict of interest in an art world that even then was a shady, manipulative place, if not the deep swamp it has since become. That was one reason why people trusted his taste. Another was his skill with boards and committees and his firm...
...further by the authoritative presence of technology. His endless recycling of a few sparse impressions via his tapes serves only to lock him into the same room, situation, round of thought at the only new material comes in bizarre introspective snatches, such as his sensual enjoyment of the word "spool" (happened on by accident in the tape-playing instructions), or his momentary impulse to look up in a dictionary a word he once knew...
...project follows the Lampoon's spool of People magazine last year, which has sold almost 750,000 copies across the country since October...