Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McLaughlin is a master at this. He attacks the music on its most spiritual level: that is his reason for playing. His notes are choppy and quick, and he plays in phrases. This style is adopted by Jerry Goodman the violinist. Goodman exploits his instrument's traditional use as a lilting, lyrical stringed instrument, and also the complete range of options opened when the violin is electrified. Therefore he's able to play both lyrically, and acidly, and he can also use the violin as a rhythm instrument under McLaughlin's guitar. Jan Hammer, the keyboard man, plays the piano...
...phoned all the way from Africa to protest that he could not find a replacement for his used-up battery, Land decided that the power cells that ran the complex mechanism of the SX-70 camera should be put in the film pack rather than inside the instrument itself. Polaroid engineers designed a wafer-thin battery that will be packaged inside every container of SX-70 film. The film is exposed by a tricky system of mirrors, including one that lifts up to reflect the final image (see diagram, page...
...headquarters in Paris, Rome and Pankow, East Germany. Still, Lebanon's jitters could be premature. At week's end Israeli embassies were issuing statements assigning equal blame to Egypt, which "for years has given its blessings to the indiscriminate killings by the terrorist groups as an instrument of its own policies against Israel...
Rules for creating a hit record in the pop field: find a snappy melody for the Now Generation. Add socially aware lyrics. Dress the song up in a razzle-dazzle instrumental sound. To make the Top 40 charts nowadays, a producer must follow all of these prescriptions-or none. To wit: RCA's new release of Amazing Grace. It is a most un-snappy, 200-year-old American hymn tune, performed on that ancient instrument, the bagpipe. It is also No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week and has sold 1,200,000 copies throughout...
...extremely useful, especially along heavily traveled short-haul routes -between New York and Washington, say, where a combination of delays on the ground and in the air often slows jet travel to a train's pace. In addition, since the plane will be constantly guided by its own instruments, R-Nav will relieve already overburdened airtraffic controllers who are now kept busy constantly giving pilots new navigation directions. Equally important, R-Nav will permit planes to make bad-weather landings at airports that do not have approach radar or instrument landing systems; it will also speed up traffic...