Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sport's biggest bills, television more often than not picks up the tab. And sports of all sorts bring out the best of TV-the imagination of its reporters, the skills of its engineers. Parabolic microphones pick up a quarterback's signal changes; they eavesdrop on conversations between a golfer and his caddy. Other gimmicks such as "instant replay," "stop action," and the split screen help to heighten drama and educate the fan in the intricacies of the game...
Elliptical Shadows. To Dealer Alfred Schmela, Beuys's appointment to the academy in 1961 was the starting signal for avant-garde forces to coalesce in Dusseldorf. Other observers give much credit to Schmela, who opened his gallery in 1957 in the picturesque Altstadt quarter and introduced the city to most of its comers, from Group Zero to Surrealist Konrad Klapheck, a bespectacled young man who paints typewriters, telephones, boots, bicycle bells and shower heads as though they had eyes, ears and affections of their...
Hanging Tough. Team Two measured the passage of the night in careful inhalations, silent exhalations, and the clack of bamboo signal sticks used by the Viet Cong patrols that passed within 50 feet of its hideout. Then, at 2 a.m., a single shot blasted the night: Brown's radio man, shifting his M16, had accidentally triggered a tracer round -almost certainly disclosing the team's position. Brown hung tough, hoping that the cross-wave of jungle echoes would confuse the enemy searchers. It did, and at dawn the team moved back in to hunt out the Viet Cong...
...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...
...brush into jungle salad. Brown "popped smoke"-yellow signal grenades-to bring in the choppers, and while hovering Huey gunships laced the weeds with rockets and .50-cal. bullets, Team Two made its getaway, mission accomplished...