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...Squawking Steinway. Columbia's package concentrates chiefly on the broad spectrum of experimentation, most of it stemming from Webern's later pointillistic serialism and further shaped by the development of electronic sound producing and reproducing equipment. John Cage's Variations II required Pianist David Tudor to clip microphones at various points on his Steinway and to overtune them so that the amplifier-produced squawl and squawk become part of the composition; in Mikrophonie I. Karlheinz Stockhausen attached two microphones to an oversized gong, which was then hit with a variety of materials to produce a 26-minute...
...allowed over the doorstep. When St. Louis Public Relations Man Harry Wilson has an important news item for the press, he is torn between releasing it in time for the morning Globe-Democrat or the afternoon Post-Dispatch-either way, one of the papers is sure to squawk. When Globe Food Editor Marian O'Brien was writing a column recently, she got carried away by the combative sense of loyalty that seems to infect both dailies: "Our paper is so different from its so-called competition that I have readers come up to me and say they couldn...
...increases were substantial, explain the publishers, because costs-especially wages and printing-plant expenses-have risen sharply. To date, there has been no audible squawk from readers, and newsstand sales of most magazines have not suffered. To be sure, newsstand sales generally account for only a small percentage of overall sales, most of which are by subscription. But then, it is likely that subscription rates will also rise soon...
...night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded. "I can't stand it any longer," he shouted at the obnoxious squawk. Then he began to think about all the other things he couldn't stand any longer: solidly frozen butter pats, astrology, karate, clergymen who discourse learnedly on sex. But what was the point in ranting and raving when nobody else was listening? "That's when I decided to complain out loud in public," recalls Price. "The thing every man wants...
Gemini 5 had more military research assignments than any previous civilian space flight-a fact that caused Moscow to talk and squawk more about Gemini 5 than any earlier U.S. space mission. Moscow's Tass at first charged that the U.S. was recklessly gambling with the lives of the spacemen on an ill-prepared mission. When it became clear that Gemini would succeed and lead the U.S. far along on its timetable for reaching the moon, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, tried to deflate the news by proclaiming that nobody knows enough about...