Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound that is quirky enough to interest an intellectual audience, and Talking Heads: 77 is truly a modernist product to use the old sales pitch: If you liked Waiting for Godot, you'll love this album. But if you are turned off by the idea of troubled monologues, spoken by a "70s Man" surveying the new vacancy, devoid of the anger that animates a punk like Johnny Rotten, then save your bread. "Q'est-ce que c'est Talking Heads" indeed...
...heat frozen dinners in compact kitchen ovens, are also used to bug conversations in nearby rooms or vehicles. Metal resonators buried around a room will vibrate from sounds in the air. The microwaves are bounced off the resonator, carrying the vibrations back to the eavesdropper's receiver. The spoken words are then reproduced electronically. Such gear has allegedly been used for a U.S. surveillance project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. Another James Bondian device: a laser bug. The laser shoots a narrow stream...
...mostly as a result of U.S. preoccupation with Watergate, the Viet Nam pullout and the 1976 presidential elections. Last week the negotiations entered a new and decisive phase, when the U.S. followed Japan and the European Community in presenting its formal negotiating offer. Now that the Big Three have spoken, hard bargaining can begin, and participants have set themselves a July deadline for completion of the talks. Final written agreements would be signed by year...
...face of the weather's implacable influence. By dispensing a raging blizzard, a driving rainstorm or even a sunny day, the weather tends to ameliorate the estrangements inherent in cultural divisions and social stratifications. Inspired by exceptional weather, otherwise immutable strangers suddenly find themselves in communion. In the spoken code, all those weathered cliches -"Cold enough for you?" "Good day for ducks, huh?" "Gonna be a hot one!" "What a day!"-mean the same thing: "We are, after all, in this boat together...
Opening scene: the time is February 1977. The place: Beverly Hills. A lanky, soft-spoken actor is sorting through stacks of bills and payments with his secretary, in preparation for filing his federal income tax return for 1976. Suddenly he spots a document from a major studio attesting that he received $10,000 for services rendered during the year. Puzzled, the actor looks at his secretary. "I didn't work for them in 1976,"he says...