Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style of The Clockwork Testament should be familiar to all those who read A Clockwork Orange fast, sometimes elliptical, with a rich vocabulary and interesting experiments in portmanteau. But sometimes the prose, which includes filmscript-writing and traceries of stream of consciousness, becomes artificially lofty and burdensome. One chapter, a transcript of Enderby's appearance on the late-night Sperr Lansing Show, is a failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips...
...toilet facilities that old Sad Sack, the perennial latrine orderly, would not believe. So far, only one of these super-barracks has been constructed at Fort Jackson, but three others are being built or are scheduled for erection, enough to handle half of the 4,000 male recruits that stream through the gates every month...
Stage 3: Recycling of that $30 billion back into the spending stream, chiefly by permanent cuts in corporate and individual income taxes...
...hundreds of nominations from 15 countries, they chose the final recipient last week. She is Limnologist Ruth Patrick, 67, a much-honored pioneer in the study of water pollution, who is now chairman of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences. "She has done more to develop ideas about stream pollution and to bring such ideas forcibly before the world of industry than anyone now working," says Hutchinson. Indeed, Patrick played a key role in shaping the U.S.'s clean water act. Next month she will fulfill the Tyler prize's only stipulation: that the winner...
Horowitz was concentrating on a helium-filled acrylic box connected by a series of pipes to an enormous Van de Graaf generator. The generator was splitting hydrogen molecules to produce protons, which were accelerated down the pipes and into the box. There the stream smashed into the apple skin, turning the helium in its path an eerie purple. The apple skin was browning and curling up under the bombardment. "Wow," Horowitz said. "This baby is taking quite a beating...