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Tanz Forum Koln relies heavily on acting for expression; their dancing is not exceptional. The effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
Spurred on by the Arab oil embargo and the demands of The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, automotive engineers in the past few years have improved fuel economy by cutting down the weight of cars, designing lean-burning, "stratified-charge" engines and developing electronic ignition systems that fire spark plugs at precisely the right time in the engine cycle. Last week the Ford Motor Co. revealed that it had developed still another way of saving gas. Ford President Lee lacocca announced that within two years, his company will offer six-cylinder vans and light trucks equipped with a device that...
...reached 45 m.p.h., and is not accelerating, the little box sends out a signal activating a key-and-slot device that locks the exhaust and intake valves shut and cuts off fuel to the affected cylinders. The pistons in these cylinders continue to move up and down, and the spark plugs fire, but no fuel is burned. The cylinders are not supplied with the fuel mixture as long as the driver maintains cruising speed or until the vehicle's speed drops below 25 m.p.h...
...spark can set fire to the whole plain.' --Calligraphy by Mao Tse-tung...
...variegated chain of musical excerpts didn't always Ring Bells for the audience, but if there wasn't applause at the first line, there infallibly was at the last; the interplay of words, the subtly expressive gesture, the sheer virtuosity of the singing, something, somewhere along the line, would spark the fireworks...