Word: pendulum
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When the white column crosses the slope its point swings like a pendulum, as though it is gathering momentum for a charge down the mountain. But then something seems to anger it and it will balks or pouts and leaps over the lift tower, quivering and shaking violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...
...threat that the oil offensive will go into high gear again. One Arab source told TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager last week that if the Middle East peace talks now taking place in Geneva do not produce results by mid-March, "don't be surprised if the pendulum swings all the way to a 30% reduction" in petroleum output. Most important of all, the latest astonishing price boosts will disrupt the economies of even those Western nations that find Arab oil freely available. By unilaterally hiking the price of crude for the first time, the Arabs not only...
LEVERETT HOUSE DINING HALL, The Pit and the Pendulum...
...Trendy Pendulum. How long it will take him to decide to leave Columbo is, therefore, anybody's guess. Falk has characterized the shuffling little detective so completely that his moves are now almost completely predictable, with the kind of sameness that is anathema to an actor of Falk's ability. Falk's contract has three years to run, and those around him do not expect him to remain longer. "I'm not tired of Columbo yet," he says. "But I'm getting close...
Unless, as the network programmers suggest, TV's Year of the Cop (year of the pig?) turns out to be just another swing of the old trendy pendulum that in other years brought spates of westerns and spies to similar prominence. "I don't think the trend's going to last very long," Falk says. "All it needs is for another hit to come along in another area and then there'll be a lot of shows in that area. Anyway, to me the big dividing line is between the ocean of crap cliche...