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...bench they were sitting on is actually six big cubes, which now tilt forward to show a mammoth piano keyboard painted on their sides. The umbrellas pick out a waltz, note for precise note, in two-part harmony. This brings the man and woman together. The cubes roll over again and become an automobile with painted wheels. The couple goes for a drive. The wheels spin. The girl's hair blows in the wind. Paper puffs of exhaust smoke head for the wings. The girl loses her scarf. The car backs up to retrieve it. The smoke reverses direction...
...thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations. Blacktop highways often absorb enough heat to melt their way downhill...
...wants to pick out will dissolve more in one component than in the other when they are all shaken up in the glass tubes. The emulsion causes rapid distribution of the substances between the solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds or thousands of times over a period of hours or days, the process usually yields pure chemical compounds...
...hope returned. Lincoln Center's directors-tireless boasters before the hall was built-confessed that acoustical scientists had confirmed the findings of Schonberg's ear: the hall lacked bass, was haunted by echoes, needed a more equal diffusion of sound. Workmen arrived in June to raise and tilt the 136 acoustical "clouds" suspended from the ceiling, fill in most of the space between them, and build a reflecting musical shell behind the stage...
...Clifton '63, former president of Phillips Brooks House, said yesterday that the PBH summer program is going "full tilt...