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...which a station would broadcast the left signal on an FM frequency and the right signal on an AM frequency; the listener needed a separate radio for each signal, and, moreover, received poor-quality stereo because ordinary AM radio has a limited frequency range and is subject to static and other kinds of interference. MPX, on the other hand, uses a single transmitter that carries two sets of signals simultaneously to a single FM stereo tuner. The main carrier contains a combination of left and right (L+R) signals; a sub-carrier (the multiplex part) transmits the "difference" between...
...United Artists). A man guffaws, the audience cackles, and Pianist Weston and group are off on High Fly. Manhattan's Five Spot Cafe, where this recording was made, apparently attracts some of the most indefatigable gabblers on the club circuit, but what cuts across the vocal static is well worth listening to, especially Billy Strayhorn's Star Crossed Lovers (the only tune not by Weston), a plaintive exercise for sax and piano...
...Radio receivers near the borders of the U.S.S.R. were the first U.S. instruments to report the news. Nuclear explosions in air generate sharp pulses of radio energy that can be picked up at great distances and clearly distinguished from everyday static. When two or more stations note the direction from which a pulse comes and the instant that it arrives, its point of origin can be calculated accurately...
...Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private theater club). Though slow and static, the play, by British dramatist John Hart, served as an intriguing new comment on the work: spoken out loud on a stage, the Lawrencian lines simply sounded ludicrous...
...height, the Romanesque style was at once contemplative and violent; it coincided with feudalism, the most static of societies, and with the fever of the first Crusaders. It rose out of the ruins of the Roman and Carolingian empires-a fragmented world that wanted unity and found it in the church. From all over Christendom, pilgrims traveled the road to Santiago, where legend has it that the body of St. James-the saint whose spirit 37 times helped the Spaniards ward off the Moors-lies buried. There, about 1080,along "pilgrimage road," a church was begun...