Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With increasing serialization, indications for the performer have become more and more exact, more and more demanding; they reached the point that the performer could no longer fulfill them, and had to decide for himself how to interpret the work. Thus, if the composer is not to step from total control to no control, he must make the performer a partner in the creation of the sounds. At the same time, Ligeti has suggested, the breakdown of the tonality which required playing in one direction (forward) only, has created forms that can be passed through in several directions in time...
Once set to work, the machine eats up yarn and knits in a frenzy. It works in eight colors and three dimensions, making the garment an exact fit for the figure for which it was designed. An elaborately tailored dress, ready for buttons and hemming, takes about 52 minutes. The tapes can be changed quickly to make a different size or pattern...
...Chicken. Today, as Mrs. Post prophesied, the mix-up is on in high gear. There is still a society where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their exact placement becomes. Though manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither needs...
With the help of the charts and the company's own meteorologists, field supervisors can predict far in advance almost the exact hour when the peas have reached their point of destiny. Then, loud whistles send workers scrambling into the fields at any hour to harvest the crop. "It sounds silly," admits a Green Giant officer, "but if we figure the peas should be picked at 10 o'clock Sunday night, that is when we start picking." Later, quality-control men count the loose skins in cans-rejecting those with too many -and make an "organoleptic" test...
...Coca-Cola, whose secret ingredient, called 7-X, is shipped to Coke bottlers all over the world; its exact proportions defy successful analysis by such modern techniques as chromatography and infra-red spectrum analysis...