Word: tape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the audience for big network events dwindling, such lavish spending might seem foolhardy. But NBC executives were upbeat. The Games will begin in late July, they point out, when TV competition should be relatively light. (Because of the time difference, however, most events will be shown on tape rather than live.) What's more, NBC will recoup part of its investment by selling the rights for some events to cable. "We didn't go into this to lose money," said NBC president Robert Wright. Increasingly, in the high-stakes world of network TV, it just seems to work...
...like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy, though this seems to be the Dunster House approach. Physical humor, which might play well in the background, is brought to center stage, detracting from the play itself. The audience is treated to such extended vignettes as Axel struggling with Scotch tape and the embassy priest struggling to free himself from a Houdiniesque magic trick. These antics are funny by themselves, but are not anywhere near enough to carry an entire play...
...Canadian-based band takes hold of some old blues, or some vintage country that is threatening to lose its edge and turn into something cushy and classic. They spin it out, rework it, rediscover it, find the secret pulse under the familiarity. Suddenly a song that's been on tape delay somewhere in the back of the memory bank comes into the consciousness at full volume. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry hasn't sounded so desolate since Hank Williams. The Cowboy Junkies work their wiles on it, and the song is reborn...
Brenner says that a Boston Phoenix reporter who has listened to a demo tape of these songs told him she thought "it was the best tape she'd ever heard." And recently, Warner Brothers Records solicited a tape...
Trapped inside this billionaire publishing baron are a multitude of people: a peasant haggler, stage director, domineering patriarch, sophisticated currency trader, military commander, politician, Hollywood mogul and unabashed publicity man. Following his train of thought is like listening to ten tape recorders, constantly switching on and off, constantly interrupting one another...