American Buffalo
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American Buffalo (1977), a play by David
Mamet. [
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 135 perf.; NYDCC Award.] Don Dubrow ( Kenneth McMillan), the owner of a junk shop, his “gofer,” Bobby ( John Savage), and the small‐time crook Walter “Teach” Cole ( Robert Duvall) plan to rob a customer they believe to have a valuable coin collection. Instead they get to fighting among themselves, and the burglary never takes place. Critical reaction may have been divided about the script and its colorful dialogue filled with expletives, but the razor‐sharp performances were generally lauded, as was Santo
Loquasto's set filled with appliances, furniture, and equipment piled high and creating a cavelike atmosphere. A 1981 revival featuring Al
Pacino as Teach was a hit on Broadway and returned in 1983, but a London production with William H. Macy in the role was less successful Off Broadway in 2000.
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The Many and the Few
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...breathed at CNAM. One name is Sadi Carnot. Without his work there would...today. Early in the 19th century, Sadi Carnot was a young engineer, not unlike...of humanity all over the globe. Sadi Carnot came to CNAM to study the machines...
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The many and the few: in a parade of machines, a young engineer saw the principle that everything flows one way, from high to low.
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...breathed at CNAM. One name is Sadi Carnot. Without his work there would...today. Early in the 19th century, Sadi Carnot was a young engineer, not unlike...of humanity all over the globe. Sadi Carnot came to CNAM to study the machines...
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Tracing the Second Law
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...older than Joules work and is due to Sadi Carnot. A graduate of the famous cole Polytechnique...By combining these two ideas, Carnot was able to analyze a number of cycles...nature of the thermodynamic medium. Carnot published his results in a book...
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Tracing the Second Law: modern thermodynamics owes a debt to the contributions of a line of researchers extending back more than a century.
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...than Joule's work and is due to Sadi Carnot. A graduate of the famous Ecole...By combining these two ideas, Carnot was able to analyze a number of cycles...nature of the thermodynamic medium. Carnot published his results in a book...
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Chang, Hasook. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...operationalism. The final narrative chapter outlines Sadi Carnot's description of the working of a perfect heat engine...Thomson looked at the first, isothermal stroke of a Carnot engine. His real world system was the production of steam...
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Rudolf Diesel--happy 150th birthday: despite his turbulent personal life and his mysterious end, Diesel's engine remains the workhorse of the world.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
Magazine article from: Diesel Progress North American Edition; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...striving for the thermal efficiencies Sadi Carnot showed in his classic treatise of...air temperatures dictated by his Carnot efficiency obsession. That this...The hope for an uncooled engine, Carnot's enticement, departed first...
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Science in the Eye of the Beholder, 1789-1820*
Magazine article from: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...his disciples, their opponents, Joseph Fourier, and Sadi Carnot, were those pertaining to optics, electricity and magnetism...give a mathematical account of the propagation of heat. Sadi Carnot's heat cycle was the starting point of thermodynamics...
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Kevin Pratt on geoengineering.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Graham Bell, but rather an explorer in a universe bounded by mathematics. He has more in common with Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, the founder of modern thermodynamics and the first to recognize the necessity of entropy, than he does with Gustave...
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Kafka show makes exhibition design history.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 9/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...a number of world leaders over a period of 30 years including U.S. President William McKinley, French President Sadi Carnot, Russia's Grand Duke Serge, and Empress Elizabeth of Austria. In 1892 alone there were 1,000 anarchist assassinations...
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The anarchist and the detective: the science of detection and the subversion of generic convention in H.G. Wells's "The Thumbmark".
Magazine article from: Victorian Newsletter; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...June 24, 1894, an Italian anarchist, Sante Jeronimo Caserio, assassinated the French president, Marie-Francois Sadi Carnot, an act that was the culmination of a series of anarchist attacks in France and Europe dating back to the assassination...
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Nicolas L é onard Sadi Carnot The French physicist Nicolas L é onard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832), with his analysis...the science of thermodynamics. Sadi Carnot was born on June 1, 1796, in...
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot , 1796-1832, French physicist...thermodynamics; son of Lazare N. M. Carnot. His famous work on the motive power...between heat and mechanical energy. Carnot devised an ideal engine in which a...
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Carnot, Sadi
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Carnot, Sadi FRENCH PHYSICIST AND ENGINEER 1796 – 1832 Nicolas-L é onard-Sadi Carnot was born in 1796 in Paris. He is known as the father of thermodynamics...
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Sadi Carnot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sadi Carnot , 1837-94, French statesman, president of the Third Republic (1887-94); son of Hippolyte Carnot. As minister of public works (1880-85) and of finance (1886), he...
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Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Carnot, Nicolas L é onard Sadi ( b Paris, France...eldest son of Lazare Carnot, Sadi was born in the Palais...Hundred Days, Lazare Carnot was Napoleon ’...of the interior, and Sadi became an object of special...
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