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Been struggling to get on,but hey ho

My vote is JWS@22

GK@15 and Fieryjack@43 were my other short straws,
Cheers for now

Just waiting for les40's vote now.

Sorry I'm late guys, just got in on time I think.

I'm gonna throw put the cat among the pigeons with Ginge at POST 8 - I know it's a ghost anagram but what a superb piece of wordplay

Thanks a lot, Les. Just got home. Give me a little time to agonize...

Well, I’ll look at it this way: I’ll be sparing two of you the agony of having to (possibly) make a similar decision next week. Three lovely clues. As much as I admire ginge’s construction, I’ve always been so vociferous about ghost anagrams that I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror if I went for it (not that I do much of that). Though I favor clues that include both definition (especially the somewhat misleading kind) and wordplay (separately, I mean), I think rambler’s clue is very nice, but I’m going with Rosalind’s

Completely transformed, I save new undulating curves (4,4)

because of said prejudice (I do think that the plural curves works with the singular wave).

Congratulations to the three of you, and a special mention for greedy kite with his five votes for three clues.

The prize is a film of the sinusoidal phenomenon at Tacoma Narrows in 1940. When I first saw this (over forty years ago) I was astounded by the man with the pipe, who looks as if he's on a constitutional. Nightmarish or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

Best to all.

Well done Rosalind, great clue

Thanks to Aristo for the words to clue and thanks to imagcq for the vote.
I’m off to watch the clip

Congrats Rosiland (the mistake's intentional).

Commiserations to rambler, ginger and greedy kite.

Thanks to aristophanes for hosting :)

Apologies to ginge - I have a new device and it insists that you must be called 'ginger' (damned technology)

Thanks for the phrase and the clip, aristo - I think you might have needed my "Fourier transforms" to analyse that oscillation!

Congrats to the three featured runners, and also to GK, who made the mistake of splitting his vote.

Thanks for the vote, The Ambler - I liked it, but I suspected that the mathematical approaches wouldn't attract much attention.

Congratulations, Rosalind - thanks for the votes AB, jws and teff7.

I hope aristo won't mind my adding another clip - I think it's stunning so use full screen.

http://gizmodo.com/this-animation-based-on-oscillating-sine-waves-is-utter-493970700