Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of the results are aesthetically stunning: at the end of an opera in Dreyden, the huge candle-laden silver chandeliers descend glowing white, gold and silver from the ceiling. Lowered past the grey arches of the boxes, they throw black shadows upwards. Below, dark figures in cocked hats wait, holding huge semicircular fans of metal. Waving these, they fan out the chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice of a long dead time and place, but the patterns, colors...
...then we'll move on to Elsie's, because the beef in the stronganoff is as tempting as a squash ball. There were, as always, leftovers from breakfast, which today included quiche lorraine, but most of us couldn't wait until four when the quiche defrosted...
...workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait'll the kids see this." Another veteran who flew over Europe said wistfully as he viewed the empty aircraft: "I see faces. The faces of those who didn't come back." There is still more. A rather unnerving audio-visual display of how modern air traffic controllers work. A film called...
...importance of a scientific work, as the German mathematician David Hilbert once observed, can be measured by the number of previous publications it makes superfluous to read. Scientists and technologists dare not wait for their current journals...
...perhaps hidden in some family vault near Melbourne, where a young boy of ten once frolicked in unburdened bliss, there is a rusty sled emblazoned with the word ... no, wait. It never snows in Melbourne, and Murdoch is no self-destructive Citizen Kane. America's newest press lord has only just discovered a whole nation of newspapers he does...