Word: stream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money to an endless stream of visitors in trouble...
...with all the stops out. Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness. And yet, frequently, the crazy machine works because of its voluptuous imagery. When Ron is wounded in Viet Nam, he collapses backward, and from his mouth a stream of blood spurts like the fountain of lost youth. The hospital sequence is an insider's tour of hell, and the Mexican brothel is an endless emotional purgatory...
...number of homeless people, and tutoring programs cannot overcome racism, poverty, illiteracy, or environmental distruction. These are the issues which PBHA volunteers confront every day. Month after month, PBHers dive into the river and try to teach their pupils to swim. But, day in and day out, the stream of refugees and illiterates seems to grow longer...
...tube technology, works something like a seesaw. A mechanism drives a loud speaker that pushes the air when incoming sound waves rise and pulls it back when the sound waves fall. Alternatively, antinoise waves can be created digitally, using a signal processor to convert incoming sound waves into a stream of numbers. Given those numbers, computers can quickly calculate the frequency and amplitude of the mirror-image waves. Those specifications are then fed to a conventional speaker and broadcast into the air. Sounds that the system wants to preserve, like human voices, can be subtracted out in the beginning...
Moynahan said he hopes the money will send a message to the politicians who find it; otherwise, he speculates, the balloons may hit the jet stream and waft down to Central America...