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...modern airplane pilot is assaulted by vital information. His cabin is lined with instruments competing for his eyes' attention; into his ears stream insistent voices and electronic signals. As if all this were not enough, the pilot may soon be expected to react to communications coming through his skin. Far from being an added distraction, says Psychology Professor Frank A. Geldard of Princeton's Cutaneous Communications Laboratory, skin signals sent out by small electrical vibrators buzzing at the rate of 60 cycles per second, will take some of the burden off the pilot's saturated eyes...
...plot A Slight Ache is more tense and aggressive than most plays by Pinter, who usually floats his characters toward realization of inner predicaments on a stream of small talk and petty routine. Here, however, the characters slide quickly into a current of self-revelation that sweeps on to a grim transfer of identities at the end. Though Stefan and Benedict wring an ironic humor out of their parts, there is no room in A Slight Ache for the mocking tedium that helps to cushion the themes of The Caretaker and The Dumbwaiter...
...stuck to one rebuttal: Ollie's supplies come from out-of-state and do affect interstate commerce. Ollie's "trickle," said Cox, is "representative of hundreds of thousands of trickles, and together they make a great stream." This is "a national commercial problem" requiring the "wisdom and discretion of Congress," said Cox, and Title II is "reasonably adapted to the problem...
...blood but lets oxygen in and carbon dioxide out, Robb's membrane was able to filter through its gossamer skin the tiny dissolved bubbles of oxygen-rich air from water without drawing any of the liquid with it. Robb's membrane works best in a tank or stream of running water, where bubbles of oxygen are plentiful to draw on. Then the artificial membrane can operate as a gill does when it filters oxygen into a fish's bloodstream. Indeed, trout breathe best in mountain streams where there is plenty of oxygen in the water...
...general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged-in-the-wood reliability, from Abraham Lincoln's "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream" to 1924's "Keep cool with Coolidge...