Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since President Nixon agreed to hand over the Watergate tapes, a consuming question in Washington has been whether tapes can be altered without detection. The answer is a qualified yes. The right man with enough time and with access to the original tape recorder could, in the opinion of audio experts, make substantial changes that would defy detection...
Though some audio experts believe that they can uncover almost any kind of tampering, the hard evidence seems to dispute this. Last August the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. put on a radio show in which nine audio specialists were asked to identify parts of a tape that had been doctored. They were unable to detect 90% of the edits-but reported finding numerous nonexistent changes. Producer Max Allen explained: "In a speech by Roy Cohn [Joe McCarthy's onetime protégé], they said they had looked at their oscilloscopes and swore they saw edits. But it was just...
...start a health-training and service center, and a co-op real estate office. There already is an exemplary co-op grocery store, record store, community paper, and a Video Center which uses portable tape machines as a way for people to engage in what amounts to an audio-visual debate about anything and everything that effects their lives...
Farther down the corridor is the computer room, which controls the "audio-animatronic" displays: banks of thick cassettes slotted into a blinking steel wall, 14-track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with...
Each number is followed by a computerized 15-second pause before the warbling revives like an audio-phoenix every time you think (hope) it has died out. The next notable contribution to the show was a harmless burble version of "I Want to Make It With...