Word: wheeling
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...drawback of letter quality printers lies not in their expense, but rather their slow speed. Inexpensive daisy wheel printers (the daisy wheel is the typing element which contains all the printer's letters and characters) print at about 10 columns per second (CPS), or about one double spaced page in three minutes. The fastest, and considerably more expensive, prints at about 55 CPS, or a page every 45 seconds...
...Lost Language of Cranes seems to have confirmed Leavitt as a promising young talent. He may need to drive a bit more cautiously, but at least he's at the wheel of a Rolls Royce. And that's not bad for someone just three years out of Yale...
...laserwriter is fairly simple--for a demigod, that is. It produces near typeset-quality printouts in less time than an image-writer or other dotmatrix printer can turn out draft-quality work. Far superior to daisy wheel printers, the laserwriter is also at least five times faster...
...ordinary nuclear unit except that Mrs. Antrobus (Rebecca Clark) has to remind Sabina to milk the pet mammoth, son Henry (Remo Airaldi) is 4000 years old and used to be called Cain, and Mr. Antrobus (Eric Oleson) comes home at night with his prototypical model for the wheel. But even if Henry did, eons ago, kill his brother Abel, and even if Sabina does stumble around the house threatening to give her two-weeks notice, throughout the first act the Antrobus family is united with the remaining inhabitants of the world to save the human race...
...spirited, quirky choreography of Twyla Tharp. "He is very precise and very careful," Tharp says admiringly. "He doesn't waste things, but he is also capable of being very adventuresome and working with great imagination in a studio." Indeed, Byrne's 73-minute score for Tharp's The Catherine Wheel was a dazzling bit of aw-shucks virtuosity...