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Ample Time. Buzhardt said that, without informing Miss Woods, he had used her recorder and re-created the overriding noise. On blank tape, one hum level was created, he said, when the secretary's electric typewriter and her Tensor lamp were both turned on; a different hum resulted when only the lamp burned. The recorder's internal circuitry was apparently capable of picking up the electrical "noise" from current flowing through the lamp and typewriter. Other experimenters claim to have duplicated a similar noise on tape when using similar equipment...
...most likely circumstance, he contended, is that "the hum was recorded when someone attempted to record over the original conversation or tried to erase it." While that was under way, the hum could have been picked up from nearby cords carrying alternating current, such as those to a desk lamp, according to this expert...
From there, though, Sha Na Na heads off onto a whole new tangent that is more theater than concert. The second act, "Sha Na Na Hits the Street," features props and backdrop assimilating a New York streetscape, complete with lit lamp post, brick wall scrawled with initials and obcenities, and a clothesline dangling scraggly threads. Act two then moves to a hop and ends with a dance contest emced by Bowzer in which three members of the band choose partners from the audience...
...employees. It also has two other profitable lines: the $12 to $20 Backpack baby carrier and the $40 Playcrib combination crib and table that folds up like a suitcase. Last week the company expanded with the introduction of a larger folding stroller and the acquisition of the juvenile lamp division of Universal Lamp...
...huddled with three students behind a metal kiosk. Suddenly, a student dashed across the intersection and hurled a rock at a glaring mercury street lamp. A policeman fired a round at him; the bullet ripped through the kiosk and into the shoulder of the student to my left. Groaning, he slumped over in the arms of his friend, blood oozing through his starched white shirt...