Word: tape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full strength, NBC will have a force of 1,100 staffers. At their disposal: 1,000 video monitors, 100 cameras, 154 tape machines and two pagoda- shaped anchor booths. Working out logistics with the South Koreans was made tougher by language and cultural differences, though NBC assuaged its staffers with tours of the Demilitarized Zone, pizza runs and egg days (bring your own eggs and have them cooked to order American-style...
Some of the stiffest competition will come from those she trains with at the Palace of Sports in Minsk. During a relaxed warm-up, as a Michael Jackson tape plays softly over the loudspeakers, the individual personalities emerge. Natalia Lashchenova, who turns 15 this week, is the prankster, tripping her teammates when the coaches are looking the other way. Svetlana Boginskaya, 15, - the tallest on the team (a towering 5 ft. 2 in.), is the most serious, often perched on a mat between exercises with her nose in a book. Olga Strazheva, 15, has an appetite for science fiction. Svetlana...
Grocery stores ran low on bottled water, batteries, canned tuna and bread as people laid in supplies. Homeowners covered windows and doors with plywood and shatter-proofing hurricane tape. Offshore oil workers left their rigs in the Gulf of Mexico...
...that his chief would forget to turn the gizmo on when he wanted it, or -- worse -- to turn it off when he didn't. Haldeman also fretted "that this President was far too inept with machinery ever to make a success of a switch system." The result: voice-activated tape recorders were installed in the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room, and at Camp David. Writes Haldeman: "I think Nixon lost his awareness of the system even more quickly than I did." The machines, of course, forgot nothing...
Walter has a tape he wants Doug to hear, so they head for the family room and pop a cassette into the machine. "Right here -- what's that? What's he saying?" asks the younger man as the tape begins. Doug angles his upper body toward the sound. A black preacher is crying out his sermon, his voice cracking with emotion through line after line, at times shifting to an eerie falsetto high above the drone of his congregation. It's part Motown, part a century or two of brutal noonday toil, and it will raise the hairs...