Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next, Hassen A. Sayeed '96, another council executive whose star was on the rise, broke a state law by tape-recording a telephone conversation with the council's vice president, Joshua D. Liston '95, this spring. When word of Sayeed's actions fell into the hands of his political enemies, he resigned from the council before he could be kicked...
...hour was a rangy young pianist from Texas named Van Cliburn. As the winner of the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Cliburn was front-page news, the cultural vanquisher of the Red Menace; in New York City he was given a ticker-tape parade. At the age of 23, Cliburn found himself the most famous pianist since Paderewski, his very name synonymous with piano playing. His future as a major figure in American music seemed secure...
...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...
...community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious road? "I'll see Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and slip these documents about the road to him." The lack of funds for new projects? "Everything is manageable." Wrangles over bureaucratic red tape? "I'll handle...
...network's New York City broadcast center on 57th Street by Howard Stringer, CBS's Broadcast Group president. Tisch said Stringer would stay on in the new regime. And Diller, who has often castigated the bigger networks as boring and bloated, promised that there would be no ticker-tape parade of pink slips...