Word: windup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann should belong to the tenor in the title role. It is he, after all, who goes awooing, however unsuccessfully, after Stella the actress, Olympia the windup doll, Giulietta the courtesan and Antonia the consumptive soprano. If he is not careful, though, the tenor can be easily upstaged by the soprano who normally portrays all four heroines. Her music is uniformly exquisite, and on top of that she gets to show her legs in the gondola scene...
...quartz watch is a departure from the familiar windup and "automatic" watches. Gone are the mainsprings and most of the gears and cogs that keep a watch ticking. In their place is a single tiny quartz bar that vibrates when charged by electricity from a mercury-oxide battery the size of an aspirin tablet. Ground to the proper thickness, quartz has the inherent capability of vibrating at a precise and predictable rate-32,769 times per second in the case of the Bulova Accuquartz...
...none of the herky-jerky, elbow-popping moves that invariably send fastballers to the showers?or the osteopath. Rather he has a kind of loose, flowing grace that allows him to snap off a high, hard one with seemingly effortless ease. After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand motion, smokes it across the plate. "Vida has three things going for him," says Oakland Catcher Dave Duncan. "First, he's overpowering. Second, his ball moves. Third...
...including an Agnew wristwatch and a Spiro shirt-Santa Claus has several new possibilities in store. Those inclined to put the Vice President on the receiving end may look forward to a Spiro Agnew wastebasket, with decorations commemorating his crowning victories on the golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...them with being soft on violence -was typified in his Phoenix speech. In it, he leaned heavily on the incident during which his car was stoned by a mob in San Jose. Telecast again by the Republican National Committee on election eve, it became the party's campaign windup. Though the President sees things differently, there is considerable evidence that the speech did Republican candidates more harm than good. To many voters, the whole approach evidently suggested the rhetoric of the stump politician, not the reasoning of a President who must lead a nation. It is possible to imagine...