Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert would need in the way of equipment to alter tapes would be a recording studio, two to four quality tape recorders, a variety of auxiliary gadgets and perhaps an echo chamber. First he would listen to the tape over and over again until he felt at home with the speech patterns-voice modulation as well as breathing space. When he was satisfied that he knew the voices as well as his own, he would do the easy part first-simply cutting out certain words or sentences with a razor blade and splicing the tapes together. This would probably constitute...
When the tape is completed, it is recorded on another, unspliced tape. This is done on the original machine, since each recorder leaves its particular markings on tapes. As exacting as open-heart surgery, the process of altering a tape is extremely timeconsuming. It may take as long as an hour to change a word; to alter a one-hour tape could consume a full day. The result of all this fastidious enterprise can be startling. A record is available of one of Nixon's speeches defending his role in Watergate; on the flip side is a doctored version...
During 6 years on the Cambridge School Committee he has led the successful effort to radically alter the local school system...
Married. Red Skelton, 60, consummate TV clown whose alter egos include flap-footed Clem Kaddiddlehopper and threadbare Freddie the Freeloader; and Lothian Toland, 35, sportswoman whose father was cinematographer for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights; he for the third time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
...eleventh of a projected twelve volumes, the series-chronicling the ebbs and flaws of English upper-class life since the first World War-is nearly played out. Already the narrative extends across 40 years to about 1958, outdistancing many of the lives it recounts. Powell's narrator and alter ego, Nicholas Jenkins, is now in his 50s, an age that, he ruefully notes, confirms one's "worst suspicions about life...