Word: statically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windows against the stench of chemical plants. Down the road, as the Howard Johnson's tick by, all breathe easier. By mid-Pennsylvania, past the Amish country and into the Allegheny foothills, the father is almost counting cows with his children. Local radio stations dissolve in static every 50 miles; insects detonate against the windshield. He stops and has the oil checked. The American is in his seasonal migration...
...blood pressure is not continuously at an abnormally high level. If it is, he says, the patient should be forbidden to do any weight lifting. Other physicians agree with Breall and suggest that anyone with a tendency to high blood pressure should refrain from any form of isometrics, or static exercise, and consider instead such rhythmic exercises as swimming or jogging, which are preferable for the heart and circulatory system...
...uneasy feeling that Fuller's last clear year is 1940, and indeed that is the last year analyzed in this "futuristic" poem. "The only difference between the face of the earth today and millions of years ago," he writes "when all the elements also existed, but as seemingly static resources, is the harnessing of energy...
...most widely used of the noisemakers produce a mild form of radio static called "white noise" by engineers. Turned down to a discreet volume, the static masks distracting outside noises and disturbing interior echoes. The white noise has its limitations. "It's very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven...
...Polly, the girl for whom romance blossoms in an elegant French Riviera school for British girls, Judy Carne, of TV Laugh-In fame, makes a static stage debut. She arches an eyebrow here, kicks a leg there and sings a song on key, but mostly she seems to be placidly waiting for the show to carry her. Not so Sandy Duncan, who plays Polly's friend Maisie. She is a winning girl with a saucy comic style and enough sizzling energy to set the floorboards smoking. All of the dance numbers are a delight, though they have been meticulously...