Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the average American home already has 1.6 phones, manufacturers are selling more than simple communication. Says Randall Tobias, president of American Bell Consumer Products: "We expect there will be telephones in rooms where their principal function is decorative." Some phones are designed as objets d'art: a porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case...
...clarity of your article should help those who are new to the world of computers and are fascinated by their mystique to better understand how these machines function and affect our lives...
...performances, Levine strives to banish interpretive routine to get at the heart of the composer's message. "My function," he says, "is to be a necessary middleman, not a willful, distorting, idiosyncratic, egocentric middleman." His high performance standards are derived from three major influences: Toscanini, Soprano Maria Callas and Director Wieland Wagner. From the incandescent Toscanini, Levine learned the value of a taut, singing musical line. Callas, the indomitable spirit who assaulted her audiences with intense, molten performances, taught Levine that opera must always be convincing as drama, not simply a collection of voices gift wrapped in period costumes...
...deliberately assigned creative authority to Levine and the rest of the quartet. "Basically," he says, "I don't consider myself qualified to make musical or even artistic decisions. I exercise veto power only very seldom and with great reluctance. I don't think a traditional impresario could function any longer in this job. There is not enough time to do everything. Levine tells me what he wants, and I may have to go back to him and say, 'We can't afford to use so-and-so because everything he does is too expensive...
...helium and oxygen to withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering capricious fits of insubordination. The program ended after a fatality during a 1969 mission...