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...work as well. Instead, he figured that the quickest route down the mountain was the shortest route between gates. And that required deep analysis. "I needed to learn how to change directions and generate force that was different from other guys," he says. "I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points." He did not have to win. "It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing. I didn't love racing...
...wakes up inside a phone booth encased in concrete. With no memory of how he got there and slowly losing oxygen, he utilizes scientific principles and the contents of his pockets to discover where he is and how he got there. "By my calculations, the rate of torsion on my pendulum indicates my latitude to be roughly 37 degrees - 49 degrees North," is a typical insight. One setback after another must be overcome with ingenuity. Naturally, as a Jason Shiga book, the man's story proves to be far from predictable. "Fleep" has the kind of ingenious plot that would...
...Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the best pictures match his dryness to his darkness. Go first to his elastic Nude (Drying Herself), which begins in weird lamplight and ends in shadow. As raw as any of E.J. Bellocq's shots of New Orleans prostitutes, it also has the strange torsion of Lee Friedlander's tumbling nudes. This is Degas, cold and formidable, who saw what was angular in what was modern, even when he painted ballerinas...
...high-profile Swiss Army name for other products. A division of the Connecticut-based Forschner Group is starting to market a small shelf of quality wares designed to march in step with the knife's popularity. So far they include the sunglasses ($115), featuring a "precision-fit torsion system" that prevents the frames from falling off the face, and the Swiss Army Watch ($95). The new products have already generated almost $2.5 million in sales this year. Says Forschner chairman Harry Thompson: "The idea is to endlessly build a base on which the knife can thrive." Not to mention Victorinox...
...Chrysler said in its ads that torsion-bar suspension gave extra "ease in handling." In substantiation, it submitted a "braking attitude test chart" measuring results in "inches of front suspension jounce" and the outcome of a "dynamic beam and twist" test expressed in quantities of "first mode resonance." What do these terms mean? Chrysler did not explain...