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...modified musical staff, with the vertical axis representing the rotation of the record and the horizontal axis representing time. Ever since, he's been refining the system he calls TTM, turntablist transcription methodology. "Before notation, the music didn't have a lingua franca," says Carluccio. "People would refer to certain scratches, like a baby scratch"--which moves the record back and forth without mixer controls--"or a drag"--a slow scratch that creates a low pitch--"but no one knew how to replicate them precisely." With the help of industrial designer Ethan Imboden, Carluccio created TTM version 1.1, a pamphlet...
...office, I wrote that it would take time before we would come to know Bush’s team as we knew Clintons. Now, four smirk-filled months later, we are comfortable enough with the whole clan to mention them in casual conversation, recognize them on television and even refer to our Defense Secretary (a grown man, no less) as “Rummy.” After four months, what have we learned...
...spokesman for Clean Harbors said that the company was legally bound to refer inquiries to Harvard...
...York City-based C-Hundred (which he started with producer-director Jim McKay in 1987) and the Los Angeles-based Single Cell Pictures (launched in 1995). Both are now run under Self Timer, a parent company that Stipe heads, and both focus on low-budget films. "I refer to what we do as 'under the radar,'" says McKay, who directed Our Song, a C-Hundred film with a budget of under $500,000. Single Cell's films tend to have bigger stars; 13 Conversations features Matthew McConaughey and Amy Irving...
...This musical badinage, from the film "High Society," refers to the Bing Crosby character, a Newport aristocrat on the outs with his fellow swells. But it might also refer to the status, then and now, of the original Groaner. In the early '30s Crosby had created, or certainly synthesized, the craft and tone of modern pop vocalizing. The summer of 1956, however, when "High Society" premiered, was the sweltering season of "Hound Dog." Genteel warbling of the Crosby stripe was two generations passé. First it was supplanted by Sinatra's aggressive poignance; then it expired in the steam Elvis...