Word: vacuumed
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...cacophony of machinery. The limits are measured in decibels on a logarithmic scale that runs from the threshold of hearing (1) through the level of hearing impairment (85 db, if continuous) to that of acute pain (135 db). (By comparison, normal conversation registers at about 55 db, a vacuum cleaner at 70 db, and a jet taking off at 118 db.) If quieter machinery does not yet exist, or is not now used in New York, the code requires it be developed or obtained before future deadlines. Among the rules...
...Meanwhile, he is sole sales agent in the U.S. for the Soviet auto and electronics industries and Rumanian auto and petroleum exports. This year he introduced a $3,195 Jeep-like Rumanian vehicle into the U.S. He is talking with executives of Westinghouse and General Electric about distributing Soviet vacuum tubes in the U.S., and he plans to import 7,000,000 gallons of Rumanian gasoline in December. Most of his deals are financed by U.S. banks and the Government's Export-Import Bank. Because of the Communists' shortage of hard currency, Ross thinks that there...
...term "realism" cannot express the painstaking accuracy involved in making the figures exactly like human beings. Not only does the "Woman Cleaning the Rug" by Duane Hanson have real spectacles on her nose, a real Dynel wig on her head, and a real bandaid on her shin, but her vacuum cleaner is plugged into a socket in the wall. The very technological feat of creating the illusion of a woman's flesh out of synthetic polyester and fiberglass becomes the most significant thing about the sculpture. The subject matter is almost secondary. One becomes obsessed in De Andrea's "Boys...
...business partner, Doris, 69; by self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning; in South Pasadena, Calif. Dreyfuss was a young stage designer at the start of the Depression when he turned his talents to industry. During the next four decades he fashioned such everyday items as Big Ben alarm clocks, Hoover vacuum cleaners, Royal typewriters and the Trimline telephone...
...steam in the mid-sixties, when the experiments of the early part of the decade began to turn into repetition on the one hand and polemic on the other. Chabrol churned out Chabrols and Truffaut, Truffauts. Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave Godard politics. No one gave Resnais money. This same vacuum which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship with the BBC, a stint...