Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait'll the kids see this." Another veteran who flew over Europe said wistfully as he viewed the empty aircraft: "I see faces. The faces of those who didn't come back." There is still more. A rather unnerving audio-visual display of how modern air traffic controllers work. A film called To Fly-so realistic that some viewers get airsick. Said a former Navy pilot: "My God, I'm getting vertigo." A life-size model of the Soviet Soyuz space vehicle coupled to an Apollo capsule...
...full-size "hard" variety, three handheld, one in a helicopter and one in the Goodyear blimp; five slow-motion "discs" for replays, and a vidifont, a computer-like machine that can instantaneously cough up players' names and statistics. Add to that three miles of video cable, 3½ miles of audio cable, 65 microphones and 100 monitors, then plug everything into 15 giant trailer trucks and a specially built studio for the pre-game show, and the Super Bowl can be beamed to the addicted nation...
...Okay, it's star time. Riff-raff, set the sonic transducer on program eight. prg And secure all levels at zero...relax... you won't find Earth people quite the easy mark you imagine...this sonic transducer is, I suppose, some kind of audio, vibratory physio-molecular transport device...
Cane in hand, a long cloak over his shoulders, "Brother Colonel" Muammar Gaddafi sat alone at a desk center-stage in the spanking-new, audio-equipped People's Hall, lecturing 980 People's Congress delegates like a stern but kindly headmaster. Occasionally he would make use of a blackboard to illustrate a topic. At times the proceedings suggested a college teach-in, with Gaddafi reminding delegates that they, not he, were the decision makers. As for the country's top ministers, the colonel said, "You can change any of them right now if you choose...
...could have done as a medieval troubadour, roaming the streets of Europe. He claims never feeling completely comfortable as a storyteller in present-day society. "There is no tradition of storytelling in our society and no models for it...our society is so non-supportive for storytellers." He cites audio-visual influences such as T.V. as a deterrent to serious storytelling in the traditional sense. Blue laments, "We don't even have children who know they're supposed to listen to stories...you got to be strong...