Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along the line, Reed seems to have decided that the minimal rock he pioneered with the velvet Underground in the late '60s-basic riffs repeated without elaboration on a rhythm guitar-was bankrupt as a musical form. He broadcast this decision with his rendition of the old Velvet Underground standard "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" on Street Hassle; he sang it virtually a cappella, with no guitar, no drums, nothing but a fuzzy electronic backup to signal that this was indeed, or had been, rock and roll...
...April 24 Crimson reported the Corporation's decision not to support two shareholder resolutions sponsored by church groups. These resolutions would have required Mobil Oil and Standard Oil to reduce their oil trade with South Africa by one-third, the amount of oil believed to be sent by South Africa to Rhodesia. More disturbing than Harvard's actual vote was one of the reasons given for refusing to support the church initiative...
...changes to the car are essentially straightforward. Moody, an engineer, and Shetley, a car buff, made some aerodynamic changes in the body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...next word. The chip has a vocabulary of 250 words, and another chip called Vowel Power can add 150 more. The voice is a male monotone patterned after the Midwestern accent of a Dallas radio announcer. Says a TI public relations man: "We were looking for standard American speech-not good English, just very American...
...close to a 'common goal' for all of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development-almost instantly after emerging on the earth by any evolutionary standard-the music of Johann Sebastian Bach cannot...