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...convenient and Lilliputian than the original. Called a cassette, it encases a tape and two tiny reels within a plastic box scarcely bigger than a pack of cigarettes. It snaps into a player as handily as the cartridge does, but it must be removed and turned over at the midpoint of its playing time, which averages 40 minutes. Since it moves even more slowly than the cartridge, it sacrifices still more sound quality. But it boasts two big advantages. Unlike most cartridges, it can be wound forward or backward for playback of selected portions of the tape. And a blank...
Only hours before the blaze broke out, the company had marked the midpoint of this summer's season with the U.S. premiere of Paul Hindemith's first full-length opera, Cardillac (1926). The work reflects Hindemith's youthful expressionisms although its intricately polyphonic writing and its theme-the creator v. society-also presage such products of his maturity as the 1938 opera Mathis der Maler. The libretto by Ferdinand Lion is based on an E.T.A...
...State Theater, the American Ballet Theater opened a month-long stand featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers second only to Bruhn: Nureyev...
...worked out his novel theory after compiling an atlas of the "peculiar galaxies" that appear to have been distorted by cataclysmic explosions. Many of these distorted galaxies, he noted, were located at just about the midpoint of a line joining a pair of nearby radio sources. Most of these sources are radio galaxies, but eight have been identified as quasars. Furthermore, filaments of matter from several of the peculiar central galaxies appear to extend out in the direction of the radio sources...
Gravity-Powered Travel. To be sure, some formidable obstacles would have to be overcome before his scheme could become reality. At its midpoint, a Washington-Boston tunnel would be five miles below the surface of the eartha technically difficult and prohibitively costly bit of construction. In addition., the subterranean temperature at a five-mile depth might be as high as 265° F., and a passenger vehicle would need an immense cooling system. Finally, because a perfect vacuum could not be created within the tunnel, and because the vehicle would probably have to ride on some sort of rail, friction...