Word: zest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facility's narrow, institutional-green corridors, Mathematician Ronald Graham effortlessly juggles six spinning white balls. Some days the balls are black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year's Day 1925, Bell Labs--AT&T's peerless research and development arm--has been bubbling with creative unorthodoxy. "To work here," says one researcher, "you have to let your hair down and be a free spirit...
...time of his adventure and called Fatso by his crew mates, from those of Garcia Marquez. When the simple sailor remarks upon his "indefatigable desire to live," the presence of the aspiring author who had read his Faulkner and Hemingway seems self-evident. But these literary touches only add zest to an already astounding saga. Those who care about the career of Garcia Marquez will find much of interest here. And so will readers who want to know how it feels to be at the mercy of nature...
...clothes that give the exhibit its full zest."The East Village" celebrates invention and the kind of creativity that is uninhibited by the fine points of technique, and it presents, in one humongous Day-Glo capsule, the liveliest fashion scene in the country. Some of the designers' names --including Susan Backus, Keni Valenti and Bayard--may pop up some day soon in more commercial settings. The show as a whole may or may not be a barometer of where street-savvy American fashion is headed, but downtown is the direction to go for spirit, smarts and a little...
...chief was rakishly turned out in a uniform of green overalls, helmet, goggles and Hermes scarf. Just the thing this year if you are Princess Anne spending the day in Warminster, Wiltshire, inspecting the latest weaponry of your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon and rattling 70 rounds from...
...invitation to pleasure is being taken up with accelerating zest. Beauty parlors have mushroomed. Sedate discos and bowling alleys have sprung up. Citizens are snapping up $100 cameras and going on picture-taking sprees. In a few cities, six out of seven families own a television set, on which they can watch commercials offering a wide range of domestic and foreign consumer goods. There are aerobics classes and body-building sessions; one of the beauty items for sale in the capital is a fengruqi, a machine purported to enlarge the breast...