Word: whirly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pretty it is. Out on the dock, Ernestine shucks off her heels and dangles her feet in the water. Cameras click and whir; Bradley's people smile and nod. "It's just one of those places that touch me deeply," Bradley says. When the last mini-pack clambers off the dock, he turns to an aide and asks, "Is that...
Most people worry about gunk in the air they breathe, but those bulky air filters that ceaselessly hum and whir can be just as irritating. Clearveil Corp. of Denver offers an alternative way to cleanse your home or office of airborne dust, bacteria, cat dander and cigarette smoke. The Jenn-Air SilentAir purifier ($229) is thin and light and, best of all, silent. Like other filters, it sends out negative ions to grab hold of the pollutants. Unlike other filters, it has a charged metal strip to lure them back in--no noisy fan or motor. It takes longer...
Once it's time to take to the ice, new doubts and distractions set in. No one skates the same program exactly the same way twice. Each performance is an evolving dynamic that takes shape only as blade hits ice. Underneath the show smiles whir constant questions: "Is there enough speed for this jump? Can I make three revolutions or just two? Since I missed the first jump, should I throw another one in?" Yet skaters must not fall for the easy temptation of deep analysis. Lipinski, a wizardly technician on the ice, says that during her long program, lasting...
...What Is Frightening? A: No Longer Senorita Alien. When alien infighting occurs in the cage of pain constructed by pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...
...orbits or so, the crew kept up this orbital hit-or-miss, searching doggedly for the sun. Finally, at well after midnight on the morning of June 26, an instrument panel flickered to life, then a cabin light. Behind the walls, a fan started to whir, and a pump started to pump. One system at a time, instrument by instrument, the battered Mir recovered. By 2 a.m., more than 14 hours after it had sustained an injury that should have claimed its life, the world's only operating space station was working again...