Word: bleep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whoops of All-Star Rightfielder Dave Parker, the ego-deflating insults of Garner and the popping of corks by Team Captain Stargell, the oenophile first baseman. Typical play: a Pirate crashes a three-run home run to win an eleven-inning game. Typical congratulatory byplay: "Way to go, [bleep]!" "Thank you, [bleep]!" Other teams may deem it necessary to fine players to ensure promptness at the ballpark; the Pittsburgh locker room throbs with athletes joining the badinage hours before game time. The party does not end at the door. Pirate pitchers have been known to play Frisbee in the bullpen...
...familiar ring is giving way to the bleep, the buzz and the flash. All are part of the sound-and-light show emanating from the versatile new computer phones that are fast becoming an integral part of the increasingly automated, modern office landscape. The bookkeepers are happy because the new phones save money, but desperate cries of anguish are rising from office workers unable to cope with all that electronic wizardry. Their complaints: being disconnected in midsentence, having a third party break in on a conversation or, worse, not being able to get through at all. Their solution: make...
...Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, Peter Loire and some 25 other celebrities. "I've temporarily stepped out of the office-you are being taped on a machine guaranteed not to erase," says the voice mimicking Nixon. "Listen, could you make an 18-minute message so I could get those (bleep) off my (bleep)?" Then the voice fades, saying, "I will be back ... I will be back...
Nikolais tends to define the dancer as an energy-generator--as a friend said, "an electronic bleep." He views dancers as dimensional forms extending vertically, horizontally and diagonally in space, signposts for its immensity, variables in a world governed by laws of time and motion. The dancer is also an object in its own right for Nikolais, an immobile sculptural form no longer calling attention to the dimensions of space but to its own three-dimensionality. Noumenon takes off from this point, exploring how body-enveloping stretch material can transform the dancer into a frozen form in space. Here three...
...Rent a computer. Cram it with the names, telephone numbers and demographic particulars of a million or so voters. Feed in recorded messages by the candidate, slanting each pitch to appeal to a different ethnic or social group. Plug in a bank of telephones. Push a few buttons. And bleep, whir, dingaling, the machines tirelessly canvass the constituency with "personalized" calls (TIME...