Word: goldbergian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, but to Poles, in their dogged, rear-guard struggle for democracy, Szpilki's sharpest needles are reserved for Communist duplicity and doublethink. In a cartoon that wryly helped to explain its own survival, Szpilki showed a technician standing with a visitor in front of a Rube Goldbergian version of an electronic brain. "You think this criticism machine is big?" said the technician. "You should see the anti-criticism machine...
...rolls were still in good condition; the problem was how to re-record them. Columbia was eager to try and, with the help of a Welte engineer, managed to rig up the huge original Rube Goldbergian player so the rolls could be played back. Simonton and a French engineer recorded the music on tape...