Word: platter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baby rats had been taken from the biology labs during the afternoon. Individuals in the group planned to present the tiny pink squirming rodents to Pusey on a silver platter garnished with lettuce as a gift from "the tenants of Harvard-owned apartments and the oppressed people of the third world...
...give-you-coffee approach. Later that afternoon, when I went to Dean Ford's office to borrow a copy of the 1954 committee report, I found that the tactic was fairly ubiquitous. In the receptionist's office was a large platter of brownies and raisin and Toll House cookies. I had been there only 15 minutes when I succumbed...
Rescue Ahead. Maybe. On the other hand, disks have been around since 1887, and music lovers are fondly accustomed to the pleasurable shape and fed of platter recordings. Besides, record companies have a heavy investment in disk recordings. But to go on gratifying the old record-buying public, manufacturers will probably have to come up with something that does not yet exist -a practical, marketable disk offering four-channel sound of quadrisonic tape. The technical problem-essentially how to squeeze four channels into one groove and then play them off again with high fidelity-has long seemed insoluble. Last week...
...compatibility with existing hi-fi systems-for it requires only an "encoder" at the recording studio and a "decoder" in the home of the listener (in addition to the extra amplifiers and speakers). Yet whether the Scheiber system or something like it will really end by saving old-fashioned platter records from the tape revolution depends on the public. No one knows how record collectors will face up to the trouble and cost of replacing their favorite old recordings with new ones-either on tape or disk-in quadrisonic...
There's an enormous platter of live black eels in an inky sauce, and that's only the hors d'oeuvres. As the guests seat themselves at the banquet, their hostess urinates in a silver chamber pot. Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies from some gastronomic apocalypse: a white calf wearing a brass helmet, cows' udders aswim in a mucid green sauce. It is a picnic in the best traditions of ancient Rome and Federico Fellini, designed and executed for Satyricon, his first full-length film in four years...