Word: spun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here, where the march of flourescent poles has not yet reached. Catching our headlights in smoothflowing creaminess, the antlers pierce mutely our forward fall: motionless, steady in their chrome cage, at the fore of our seamless void, too strong, too immutable in their decay for our quick-lipped, easy spun gasp of time...
...bigger windmills of the future will require far greater storage capacity. One possibility: excess power produced on windy days could be used to pump water uphill into storage reservoirs; when the wind stops, the water could be allowed to cascade down through hydraulic turbines. Similarly, the energy from flywheels, spun up to a high speed when windmills are working, could be used to run electrical generators when the wind ebbs. University of Massachusetts Engineer William Heronemus has an even more imaginative scheme: he would use the windmill's electrical output to break down water molecules into their component atoms...
Arthur A. Smithies, professor of Economics, called Hansen the "apostle of Keynes" and characterized him as a "home-spun, great figure...
...contralto. The female version is more elaborate, and Conductor Schippers prefers it. Decked out in armor and an elegant Zachary Scott mustache, Verrett moved enough like a man to make the impersonation halfway acceptable. Hers is not a warm voice, but it is clear and brilliant. Dramatic coloratura lines spun out in the third act's "Non temer" brought Verrett a three-minute ovation of her own. As Maometto, the tall, athletic Justino Diaz not only displayed one of the richest, manliest basses around, but actually made this terrible Turk a figure of dignity and believable emotion...
...stage is set for a traditional web of romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps...