Word: rpm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strawberry Fields Forever," on side two of Magical Mystery Tour, includes at its end a distorted voice saying "I buried Paul," which can be heard plainly at 45 rpm. And, at the end of "I Am the Walrus," a voice asks, "Is he dead, father...
...charge was made during an SDS press conference yesterday afternoon, called by national members of the WSA faction to make public a statement condemning recent Revolutionary Youth Movement (RPM) activities, particularly last Thursday's attack on the Center for International Affairs...
Most painful, Director Jack Viertel stretched the eighteen minute playlet to half an hour, on the theory that unhappiness slows all conversations down to 121/2 rpm. He mis-paced differently in the mask scene, which moved too fast to contain the action and the full cast...
...assignments for him. Charlie prefers tapes and records to readers, because they give more flexibility as to when a student can study. He got most of his records from Recordings for the Blind, a privately endowed non-profit organization in New York which will record almost anything on 16 rpm records, given three months notice. Because of the honor system in effect at Amherst there was no problem in having Charlie take his exams in his own room, having some classmate read the questions...
Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...