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Tech people are a special breed, and can seem like a pretty strange one until they explain themselves. Why would anyone spend 40 hours a week in the Loeb shop hammering nails, sawing boards, and even taking nails out of boards? How can a stage manager sit through a month of three-hour rehearsals six days a week, and then still go on to make sure everybody and everything is in the right place at the right time for from three to seven performance nights? Why will a lighting designer and his master electrician pull all-nighters to hang their...
ONLY AN EXPERT in statistics, biology, psychology, and education could adequately explain and criticize Jensen's piece, but even the layman can see some glaring intuitive and scientific problems. Jensen's scientific argument turns around two concepts derived from genetics: genotype and phenotype. Genotype refers to an individual's genetic makeup, his fixed gene structure. Phenotype means the mesh of physical traits which actually characterize an individual at any point in time--a combination of genetic and environmental influences...
...spokesman turns to Bloomfield and smiles: "We don't want to discuss it," he says. Whereupon Bloomfield, apparently worried about how long his building will be apprehended, begins to explain all the work he and his people are doing to fix things up. Someone interrupts with the cry, "What about Jelpy?" (alluding to a popular lecturer who didn't get tenure). Then another person, nearer to Bloomfield, tells him that reform is no substitute for abolition. At this point the group started walking in circles, an action which resulted in their looping out of the front door of the building...
...week a Navy investigation revealed that "one of the diving rigs in use by Sealab divers was equipped with an empty Bar-alyme canister." Without the Baralyme, which absorbs carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver, the gas builds up in the system and can eventually cause suffocation. "This could explain the tragic event," said a Navy spokesman, and indeed, an autopsy revealed "a greatly excessive" amount of carbon dioxide in Cannon's blood. Navy officials ordered a halt to all diving. Sealab 3, still leaking helium, was brought to the surface and lifted onto a barge to be taken...
Whatever they are (and I'll try to explain in a moment), Bacharach-David songs deserve a special and honored place in the rock schene, even though they fulfill a much different artistic calling than that of the hard rock tradition that gave birth to Hair...