Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Serpent, loosely based on Genesis, all the lyricism latent in the Open Theater comes out. To begin their ceremony of world birth, barefoot members of the company squatted in the aisles of the antiseptically modern Loeb Theater. With a slow crescendo of whistles, tin-klings and click-clacks, they signaled to one another, and to the audience they had infiltrated like Indians, that the creation indeed...
...center of the pool, someone is beating on a tin can, and everyone links arms and dances in a circle. A boy hoists a naked girl to his shoulders and everyone cheers, watching her bob up and down. An older man wearing a jock strap wades serenely...
...that you have the audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact, but somewhat lacking in point...
...solely on a stimulus-response basis. It records engrams, or painful memories, which are subject to constant re-stimulation. These engross carry an electrical charge, which is removed by the auditing process. An essential fixture of auditing is the E-meter, a crude form of lie detector with two tin cans, attached by wires to a meter. The pre-clear holds the cans in his hands and the meter measures electrical resistance, based supposedly upon the charge of certain memories, but in fact based simply on galvanic skin response (how tightly one squeezes, sweating, etc.) The auditor skillfully guides...
...tin-roofed village halls throughout Tanzania, angry members of the National Women's Organization stamped their feet and raised their voices in a rhythmic chant: "One man, one wife, is the proper way of life." Petitions poured in to the government, including one that warned in Swahili: "To admit a second wife is to bring poison into the home." A letter to a Dar es Salaam newspaper cautioned simply: "Polygamy will give men big heads...