Word: pedalers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbara Ackermann, Mayor of Cambridge, and Alan Altshuler, Cambridge Secretary of Transportation, led the motorcade--or rather pedalcade--to demonstrate the pedal car as a non-polluting method of transportation...
...about 4 p.m. yesterday, a caravan of ten "pedal cars" left Harvard Square and rolled amidst the traffic of Mt. Auburn St. towards Putnam Square...
...pedal car, or PPV (for people-powered vehicle), is a three wheeled adult version of the toy pedal-powered fire truck common to children. It is six and one-half feet long, comes equipped with a three-speed transmission and has two adjustable bucket seats...
...effect is roughly like listening to medieval organum (primitive polyphony) done up in the manner of Switched-On Bach. Beyond the "accidental" harmonies achieved by the passage of contrapuntal ships in an electronic night, Boulez also uses what he calls pilot tones (not unlike pedal point) to achieve, at times, gripping harmonic tension. All in all, Boulez has made a daring experiment in what might be called kaleidosonics...
...Vanknit." With her right hand, she picks a button out of the box on a small side table, and lays it in a slot of her machine. With her left hand, she positions the cloth, using a mark on the machine. Her foot, and her green slipper, depress a pedal, and the machine places the button down and news eight quick stitches of light blue thread in half a second. As she slides the material into position for the next button, she picks another button...