Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James S. Wolper '76, an announcer with WHRB, said yesterday that he discovered the transmitter failure about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday and station engineers have not been able to fix the problem...
WHRB, Harvard's radio station, has been off the air since Thursday afternoon because of a transmitter failure and it is not known exactly when they will be back on the air," a WHRB spokesman said yesterday...
Important Presence. Because the Egyptian and Israeli surveillance stations can detect anything that moves in the area, some observers consider the U.S. mission's assignment useless. "They might as well spend all their time at that comfortable base camp of theirs, for all the good they will be doing," says one Western officer. Asks another: "You know what SFM really stands for? Singularly Futile Mission." Replies Thorne: "In a way, our presence is more important than what we do." He is right. Both sides are apt to think hard about a new offensive if it means rolling over...
...Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
...title, Station To Station, iu apt, for there is something train-like in the crushing momentum of the disco rhythm tracks and about the sleek streamlined impersonality of the band. The cuts are longer (three fill each side), allowing songs to start out with splintering metallic rumbles that build up steam and reach a feverish, hand-clapping pitch by the ends. None of which would mean anything without the hooks, which are especially abundant and prehensile. In fact, it seems Bowie has subordinated everything to them. The musicians play anonymously (Earl Slick's keening feedback on the beginning of "Station...