Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come from the stores. I'm a peddler." His task is first of all to ensure RCA's classical-record future, then worry about other things. Right now he has his ideas to play with: "I'm gonna live to see the day when we wrap a classical album in the same package with the Jefferson Airplane." He also lusts for the day when quadrasonic tapes and disks-the next step after stereo-will allow listeners to bathe aurally in "kinetic musical experiences." And then he has his search for eternal youth -or rather the eternal youth...
After the first moon landings, it might have been expected that the lords of fashion would try to dress us in shiny vinyl astronaut suits. Instead, today's with-it woman often looks as if she is dashing off to the U.S.O. or to wrap bundles for Britain. The well-dressed man, newly attired in his double-breasted suit, could be off to vote for Roosevelt or Landon. Back in style are shoulder bags, wedgies, wrap-around fox scarves, and curly hairdos-all part of what Designer Bill Blass terms "the sexy vulgarity" of the '40s. Hot pants...
...Harvard tennis team became the team to beat yesterday as it upset heavily favored Columbia, 5-4, in New York. A victory today against Princeton, the other principal EITA contender, would virtually wrap up this year's title for the Crimson...
...cell, a heart cell so different from a skin cell? The answer, Jacob and Monod theorized in 1961, is that only a small percentage of the genes in any cell are giving instructions for the operation of that particular cell. The rest are "turned off" by protein repressers, which wrap themselves around long stretches of DNA and prevent them from transferring their coded information to messenger...
...disruption Friday evening, it seems to me, was the South Vietnamese government with its American apologists. Those who chanted and shouted down the speakers enabled a politically and morally bankrupt cause, a cause that something like three quarters of the American electorate has at last rejected, to wrap itself momentarily in the tattered cloak of intellectual freedom. In the present climate of opinion this kind of "radical" action becomes a repulsive form of bulling instead of a desperate attempt to be heard or to change the course of policy. It is ominous in other ways too. Just what degrees...