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...best memories go back to the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme days, when we were beginning to make albums more carefully, that we really liked," Garfunkel says of those post-Silence days. "When we sat back and listened to the playback of that record, it was a high point in my career." The highest came in 1970 with the release of Bridge over Troubled Water, which remains in the top 50 best-selling albums of all time. It was also the last album Simon and Garfunkel would make together...
Still, just as personal computers have steadily improved in speed and power, so a doubled sampling rate and better playback equipment should eliminate many of the current complaints. "The compact disc is a technology still in its infancy," says Michael Smolen, senior editor of Stereo Review magazine. "By the time it reaches adulthood, there won't be any of these specious arguments...
...testify to her excellence as an instructor. The administrators had conceded that athletes were often carried, and their lawyer argued that if an illiterate jock learned to read at Georgia and thus became a mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape playback of Trotter addressing a faculty meeting included her comment that if teachers thought some of the athletes had a bona fide chance of graduating, "we're talking through our hats." Apparently so: the Macon Telegraph and News reported that in ten years only 17% of Georgia's black football players...
...targets are largely conventional-the despoiling of the environment, the horrors of war-her methods are not. A voice-activated synthesizer called a Vocoder allows her to speak and sing in chords. Her violin bow has prerecorded tape where the hairs should be, and is drawn across a tape playback head on the instrument's bridge, enabling the violin to "speak." Her back-up band includes saxophones, amplified drums and synthesizer, even a jazz bagpiper. Films and slides are projected onto a giant screen, to reinforce and complement the sense of the words. It could all easily degenerate into...
When a user slips his brand-new blackjack program into a disc drive and turns on his computer, the drive starts spinning the disc at a rate of hundreds of revolutions per minute. As the disc spins, a record-playback head moves across its surface, picking up the original programmer's typed instructions and loading them into the computer's memory. When the disc stops spinning-presto!-an exact replica of the program will be imprinted on the machine's temporary memory, all debugged and ready to deal the cards. Or, depending on the disc, proofread...