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...dales," the needle is forced to vibrate at the same frequencies as the recorded sound. Translated into electrical pulses and amplified, the vibrations drive the loudspeaker. By contrast, RCA's SelectaVision does not depend on mechanical vibrations. The disc's groove serves only to guide a sapphire stylus over a series of irregularly spaced slots in the groove. The slots are so small (up to 84,000 per in.) that they must be etched into the master disc by an extremely fine, high-powered beam of electrons. Yet variations in the width and spacing of the slots contain...
...Harvard, Nickerson joined the Hasty Pudding, the Owl Club, one of the less prestigious final clubs, and the Stylus Club ("a very select drinking club," he recalls...
...expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety of his stroke as he cut into the copper plate forms a line that is not a boundary for the human form, but a result of the swellings of the women's breasts, hips and thighs...
...correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot. The novices did badly, but the habitual users got better...
...poll, each voter will receive a numbered ballot card and an envelope, which can be used for write-ins. Inside the voting booth, he must insert his punch card in a small IBM unit, which will enable him to punch his selection with an attached stylus...