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...Three super-self-aware characters, dizzy from watching the way their little worlds turn, are given a satiric whirl by Playwright Murray Schisgal. Alan Arkin, Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach are the comic dervishes...
...from an extraordinary number of readers with insights of their own. All three were strong and inherently controversial works -Rufino Tamayo's stoic study of Actress Jeanne Moreau (TIME, March 5); Ben Shahn's volatile gouache of Martin Luther King (March 19); Sidney Nolan's evanescent whirl of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev (April 16). Some readers found them unusually exciting; others objected vigorously, and a few thought them downright malicious...
...Ying is the first to use a rotating screen, which gives a symmetrical distribution to the air currents. He places one or more cans of acetone in the center of the platform and ignites the fuel. When the screen revolves slowly, the draft whips the acetone fires into a whirl up to 18 feet high--only two feet lower than the ceiling of the building. (The scale attained in the New Engineering Sciences Laboratory, which was dedicated in June, 1963, would have been impossible in the old wooden engineering building...
...takes only a slight draft to start a natural vortex. The vortex then increases the wind speed, which, in turn, enlarges the whirl. In the laboratory the vortex increases the velocity of the air in propotion to the screen's radius. With a screen speed of four rotations per second, Ying has produced winds up to seven miles per hour near the whirl. While the rotating screen sucks air outwards, the rising heat of the fire pulls air toward the flame; at speeds faster than four revolutions per second, the screen's pull is greater than that of the fire...
...Ying and Emmons swung a long tungsten live wire through the flame. In this way they obtained data which could be plugged into a computer program to give the temperature distribution. Ying discovered the highest temperature, 3200 degrees Farenheit, several inches from the center of the whirl...