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...Time Lag to Infinity. The sonic boom-boom room by Howard Jones was lined with aluminum panels that responded with chimes, thuds and snatches of live radio programs as viewers moved in front of light-sensitive holes in the panels. Spectators first wiggled their fingers in front of the holes, ere long were prancing about frenetically in an attempt to activate as many different ones as possible at the same time. When they realized how silly they looked, they progressed to Terry Riley's Time-Lag Accumulator. There each viewer individually recorded laughs, hoots and remarks on a tape...
...fact is that a poll, like a photograph, is accurate ' only at the moment it is taken. Moreover, there is usually a lag of a week or two between the time that interviewers ask their questions and the time that the results are analyzed and published. In the interim, public attitudes may be radically changed by all kinds of events. Although the latest Gallup poll shows Robert Kennedy's popularity declining, for example, this reading may be outdated because it was taken before Kennedy's primary victories in Indiana and Nebraska, which in turn may be outdated...
PREP schools follow the colleges--especially Exeter and Andover, which feed more people into Harvard each year than any other school. Now the slack on the cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...
Lindsay stated that legislative bodies are "rarely ahead of the people. In fact, they usually lag...
...prestigious firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, which announced that it is increasing its starting salaries from $10,500 to $15,000 immediately. As other New York firms rapidly followed suit last week, it seemed likely that almost no large firm anywhere in the country could afford to lag far behind. One of Cravath's partners, Thomas Barr, explained that "the decision was not made for competitive reasons. We did it because we thought it was the right thing and the fair thing" in the light of onerously escalating living costs in New York...