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...this Friday at 7:30 may fit the bill. The discussion is the first in a series that the Air Line Pilots Association will present at no charge above regular museum admission. If you haven't been to this museum yet, you ought to. There are enough gadgets to twirl and buttons to push to make you feel as though you are discovering most of modern physics yourself...

Author: By Roger M.klein, | Title: MISCELLANY | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...course, some things in life are predictable. Luis Tiant is one. El Tiante will whirl and twirl for 20 more next season and the Red Sox will return for another summer of baseball and intrigue. And sports writers will continue to come up with excuses for why their pre-season predictions went wrong...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: The Red Sox in 1976: The Electric Scoreboard and Other Excuses | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

Many cleft lips show the defect only on one side, some are in the middle, and some affect both sides. Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cleft-Lip Craft | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...their cloaks and masks, Borg leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Inching Into Apparition | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

...potter sitting at his wheel will give it a practice twirl between his palms

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comparative Translations of the Iliad | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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