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...Arizona desert, University of Maryland Senior Eileen Van Tassell is using $2,000 worth of transistorized tape-recording equipment to eavesdrop on water beetles and classify their sounds. At Stanford Arthur Bleich, 27, is studying film production by making a 7½-minute documentary called The Rise and Fall of the American Breast-"a serious critique of America's fetish about female bosoms." Stanford is also giving eight-week crash courses in Chinese and Japanese, in which students are required to converse, eat and drink in the style of the language they are studying-or at least...
Though it is the first such setup in the U.S., electronic marketing is not all that the housewives' network has to offer. Channel 6 provides 24-hour Big Sisterly surveillance of the lobby which allows a tenant to inspect her own callers before admitting them or to eavesdrop on a neighbor's callers. Switching to Channel 5, a mother can check on the kids in the swimming pool. A fourth camera continuously displays cards printed with news items, classified ads and unclassified gossip...
...tampered with) and plugging it into a jack next to a regular handset. When the phone rings, the transmitterless phone can be raised without the usual telltale click to hear who's talking to your answering service (so you can break in if you like them) or to eavesdrop on a conversation on another extension...
Actually, agents both East and West have benefited enormously from far more modern devices. It is now possible to eavesdrop on a conversation held in the middle of an empty prairie by simply pointing a beam of light from 500 yards away. New cameras can take pictures in total darkness without the use of infra-red light. Finely ground lenses can zoom in from blocks away to pick up the fine print on an insurance policy. But the Soviets like the more old-fashioned and romantic gadgets, mostly, it seems, from a native passion for melodrama...
...spirit of the place, as well as the tension and maneuverings behind the portly figure of the Caudillo. The style of his reporting is vividly fresh. Reid takes the reader into open cafes and closed discussions, where he allows him to have a glass of wine and eavesdrop. The speakers are Basque seamen and financiers, Catalan laborers, Castillian artists. The mood is apprehensive, comic, and speculative by turns. Reid is very enthusiastic about this method, which he calls "creative reportage." With it, he tries to convey "how it feels to be alive in a particular place in a particular time...