Word: tune
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some 6.9 million new American cars were equipped last year with a handy feature: intermittent windshield-wiper systems, which allow drivers to fine- tune the speed of their blades. Since 1982 Ford alone is believed to have sold millions of cars containing the device. But now the automaker may have to pay for every single one, which could mean a windfall for a retired inventor in Gaithersburg, Md. For twelve years, Robert Kearns, 62, tried to persuade courts that he invented the electronic device for the wiper system. Last week a federal jury in Detroit ruled that Ford had infringed...
...difficult thing to keep in tune," he says. "Kind of like a Maserati." Writing a textbook, he says, can help a professor reconcile the two tasks...
Some of their best work was done with one another, especially classic recordings such as "I Must Have That Man" and "A Fine Romance" from 1937, as well as "Fine and Mellow", the blues tune they played together during a reunion twenty years later on the 1957 CBS-TV special, "The Sound of Jazz...
...hour pileup on the Golden State Freeway. Not that the music is jarring; far from it. Melodies waft about like tropical breezes, blowing a little irony in all directions. Tokyo Rose begins with a typically peppy but odd Parks arrangement of America -- jukebox Charles Ives -- and ends with a tune about baseball (One Home Run) sung in English and Japanese. In between is a chronicle of misunderstanding. Manzanar is about the internment camps of World War II; White Chrysanthemum is the % poignant evocation of the death of a G.I. who spent his waning days building Nissans down South...