Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among other things, a speeding thyroid increases nervous tension. The Jerusalem rats may therefore help to explain why New Yorkers are fratchy in July and why a man who commits murder in Naples when the sirocco is blowing can hope for lenient treatment in court...
...composition is still secret, but it is known to be an organic chemical with a surface tension only half that of water. Its lower tension makes it adhere better to metal and rubber surfaces, thus displacing the water. In a spectacular test an automobile motor was sprayed by hose until the motor died. When PiB was brushed on, it insinuated itself between the water and the metal, thus in effect "dried" the electrical system and allowed the motor to be started. In other tests electric motors have been operated under water after being coated with PiB. A coating lasts...
Thus Gyra is an abstract figure study, a Tellurin is a landscape (with inner tensions). The most ambitious painting in his current show is Les Cosmogones (see cut}, a vast, wildly spinning composition with a hell of a lot of tension...
...overall, the movie does not come off. Wilde's novel was a fiercely arrogant if troubled fable about the conflict between the individualist and society, between ethics and esthetics. The film lacks almost entirely this basic tension; it lacks also the moral courage and anguish, the satiated melancholy and the intellectual intensity which pervaded...
...shock was lasting. "For a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me." Throughout his childhood, at mo ments of extreme tension, he would be come immobile, in full possession of his mental faculties but without the power to make his hands or his voice obey his will. He was nervous and imaginative in a world where only the strong-willed and easy-going got along. When his mother got a job as a cook he ran wild in the streets of Jackson, sneaked into saloons and begged drinks from...