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...apparent-and so annoying. But it usually is both. The sound system of the 1978 Eartha Kitt musical Timbuktu! sounded like a tinny radio with failing batteries. The Pirates of Penzance, which has a better system, is nonetheless obviously miked. Then there are the mistakes that give soundmen high-volume nightmares. When Dreamgirls opened, an actor's body microphone jammed another, set on the same frequency, in a neighboring theater, where The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was playing. (A wireless body mike, hidden on a performer's costume, is in effect a tiny radio, broadcasting...
...task of covering Teng's visit was made difficult by the size of the press entourage: 1,200 or so Western reporters, cameramen and soundmen, as well as 32 Chinese journalists, the largest press delegation ever to accompany a foreign official in the U.S. Says Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary, who reported on Teng's White House visits: "It was one of the most suffocatingly covered events to come to Jimmy Carter's Washington. Reporting this story required nothing so much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools...
...have been a technical miscalculation, but a certain measure of thanks is due to Don Johnson and Harry Jetrick, the soundmen on this roller-skating movie, who have created such an uproar on the roller rink that much of the dialogue is incomprehensible...
...Wall is the wonder that is worth the journey. Richard Nixon finds it so today as he walks along the ramparts on a sun-filled morning freshened by the remains of a snowfall. Nixon brings no cavalry with lances and banners. Instead he carries his electronic entourage; television cameras, soundmen and still photographers record his every move along the winding, massive fortification that was first linked together in the third century B.C. and today stretches 1,684 miles across China...
Above the din and bustle of cameramen, soundmen and reporters, somebody managed to shout: "What about the violence in Selma?" Answered Harry: "Busybodies brought most of it about. If they'd stayed home and tended to their own business, they'd be much better...