Word: interlockings
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...title suggests, parodies a futuristic society. The music is eerie and electronic, reminiscent of something from the Outer Limits. As the curtain rises, one dancer lies lifeless on a rotating disk. Suddenly, a man wearing a shower cap drops from an elevated box. As the scene develops, several dancers interlock their bodies to form an assortment of odd-shaped machines. Arms, fingers, and legs move in an ingenious staccato fashion to simulate gears and cogs. While these fanciful contraptions pump, point and push, other dancers, hunched over like monkeys, attempt to communicate with furious waving gestures that go unnoticed...
Future historians who study the congressional debates of 1974 will be amazed by the fury aroused in the American people by loud buzzing sounds. Responding to constituent pressure, the House last week completed congressional approval of a bill that will eliminate the interlock seat-belt system that prevented motorists from starting their cars unless seat belts were fastened -and that emitted a persistent and sometimes angry buzz as a reminder...
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning...
That still is likely. The House bill must go to conference with the Senate, which passed a bill that said nothing about either belts or bags. The probable result is a compromise under which the seat belt-interlock system would be banished, but the mandatory air bag would be retained...
Drivers have gone to outlandish extremes to avoid both belts and buzzers. One Atlanta man unfastens his seat belt, and turns off his hearing aid, as soon as he starts his new Impala. In some garages, mechanics are disconnecting the interlock system at an average...