Word: tape
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life. Apparently, the Beatles themselves realize that their work in the recording studio has become too mannered and grown too far away from their beginnings in Liverpool. Next month they will tape a one-hour TV show for the BBC in concert format, facing a live audience for the first time in more than two years. It may be that the manifest mannerism of The Beatles will turn out to be what it now seems-just a day in the life of four of the century's most inventive pop artists...
...light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time the viewer claps his hands together. Ingeniously combining a blower and a vibrator, Engineer Niels O. Young flings an 80-ft.-long loop of tape soaring out into graceful swirls in his mechanized Fakir in 3/4 Time...
...judgment, creativity and youth" to fill some 2,000 secondary jobs. His transition headquarters in Manhattan and Washington are dispatching more than 75,000 letters to university presidents, business leaders and foundation heads soliciting nominations for such posts. Replies will be screened, then the information will be transcribed on tape for storage in Government computers. But Nixon Adviser John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota...
...more hostility between her and her subject, she feels, the better the interview. In waging this belligerent kind of journalism, her weapons are a tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh...
...everything. The System made even James K. (for King) "Jimmy" Glassman want to hit the buzzer and get to say "Richard Nixon" on national teevee. And if any unpardonable breach occurred--for instance if someone being interviewed called Mr. Earle "Mr. Ludden" by mistake--they could erase the tape so smoothly hardly anyone would notice. Right after the show, the producer came up to Mr. Earle. "Okay, let's see what we can do with the tape," he said...