Word: swivelling
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...mean, I enjoy watching steroidinflated monsters without necks roll around in the mud as much as the next guy. Honest--I think the forward pass should assume its rightful status alongside Mr. Potato Head and the swivel chair as one of mankind's three greatest inventions. I think the Super Bowl is underhyped. I love football--really...
...information that people like Michael Korda take for granted. It is galling to admit that I have at my fingertips neither the international dialing code for Abu Dhabi nor an up-to-date list of bank holidays in Kuala Lumpur. Even worse, I am forced to rise from my swivel chair and wander down the hall each time I need the name of the concierge at the Hotel George V in Paris. In contrast, about the only power tool my Daily Planner offers is a page of metric equivalents. Unfortunately, the last time I needed a metric crib sheet...
...Starship's rear-facing propellers push rather than pull it through the air. A pair of 7-ft. tip sails, fitted to the end of each wing, serve as vertical stabilizers and help reduce aerodynamic drag. The forward-mounted canards swivel back during high-speed flight to further reduce drag and are equipped with elevators that eliminate the need for a tail. Beech is keeping the Starship's performance characteristics secret, but early reports suggest it can reach cruising speeds approaching those of business jets at about 40% the fuel cost of a Gates Learjet or a Cessna Citation...
...Broadway, Nunn insisted on a completely new book and an equally new look. Central to his vision is a set made of towers painted to look like concrete and placed on turntables so they swivel to become a hotel lobby, an airport, a convention hall, a bedroom. To some extent these spaces resemble one another, but that is Nunn's point. Where the London Chess suggests the survival of kitschily various cultures, the Broadway version implies the triumph of a soulless international pragmatism that finds its perfect expression in interchangeable, neobrutalist architecture...
...Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. Air Force Two lifts off exactly on schedule. On board with Bush are 18 aides, 15 Secret Service agents and three reporters. The Vice President sits in a swivel chair in the front cabin with former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Lehman, champion of the 600-ship Navy, is Bush's heavyweight sidekick for the day (yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight...