Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always a dirt floor, no matter how you deceive yourself? Beats me, but there's no drama in the play. Linney writes aimless, graceless dialogue and has no sense of shape--or else the piece would be a fifth as long--and his characters are thin or non-existent. Director Brian Smiar has immersed them in molasses, resulting in The Longest Hour, as badly staged and acted as anything I've seen on the Harvard stage, let alone in a company with national aspirations...
...review is tentatively committed to adopting some form of "race-conscious" policy, thanks to a razor-thin 42-39 vote two weeks ago. But recent pressure by key faculty members could easily lead the editors to overturn that commitment. We urge the review to stick to its guns, and to maintain its determination to compensate for pervasive discrimination by including race as a consideration along with grades and writing samples...
...world are Langmuir Blodgett films?" asked Beth Hiseler, senior office assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped to life when Chemical Engineer Russell Phillips explained that the name refers not to some new foreign movie director but rather to thin layers of organic matter that might some day be used to convert solar energy to electricity. The explanation spurred another scientist, Nevin Hiester, to point out that Langmuir Blodgett films are still too expensive for widespread use in industry...
...their surface glazing. Otherwise, the 100-ton orbiter survived magnificently, even weathering the bold maneuvers-much wilder than anything attempted by the first crew-that Engle put his bird through during the fiery descent. As the orbiter's stubby wings and flared fuselage began getting lift from the thin air in the upper atmosphere, he threw the ship into a sharp 80° bank and worked its big body flap to the limit, pulling the nose up in a series of porpoising motions...
...Captain Abruzzo had piloted Double Eagle II across the Atlantic, a pioneering trip that was half as far and twice as calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things. "For the adventure, the achievement...