Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jones, a largely self-taught aeronautical genius who never finished college, did not pursue his idea until the late 1960s. ("I didn't push it very much because it looked pretty weird.") By then, the U.S. was seriously considering construction of a large SST, a commercial supersonic transport, and wind-tunnel tests confirmed that the oblique wing should do the things he claimed it could. As Jones explains, at supersonic speeds conventional swept-back wings create noticeable pressure on each other, like two motorboats speeding side by side through the water and slamming waves into each other...
Seriously, though these nine short stories by John Domini (who does teach Expos 18) are a lot more fun to read than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
Though undergraduates make up only about a quarter of his total business, they are by far the majority in the wee hours--say 3:30 to 6 a.m., when, as one counter employee puts it, the store gets "weird, but boring." Harvard's influence on the franchise is more noticeable during the summer, when business drops 30 per cent. The peaks and lows produced by reading period, finals, and the stretches in between when students get locked into a pattern of nightly munchie-hunting also affect sales...
...Dunster JCR, you'd never know there was a show there. The couches and wood paneling and portraits give their usual impression of a stately drawing room, except for the two ushers buzzing about with a little more than the usual confusion persuading the audience to sit in weird configurations on the floor...
...this exegesis, though fascinating and never pedantic, is subordinate to the central question of the book: what does the analyst do? What is the substance of this weird, almost inscrutable relationship with the patient? What goes on in those quiet rooms with thin venetian blinds, and potted plants for 50 minutes a day, four or five times a week, for five, six or seven years? It is easy to conjure the now hackneyed image of one person sitting in a chair with a pad and pencil while another lies on a couch. It is impossible to imagine what they could...