Word: taping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a balcony. Cupping his hands like a megaphone, he shouted, "United we shall win! United we shall win!" Then, accompanied by two tanks that rumbled along as a guard of honor, Constantine went to a local radio station and recorded a 15-minute speech. Royalist pilots flew the tape south to Larissa, a town in central Greece that had the only available transmitter...
...Miami police department now videotapes moving, talking mug shots of every suspect arrested. "It takes from 30 to 40 seconds," explains Officer Lloyd Hicks, who runs the project, "and it's like a walking wanted card. Officers checking the ident tapes later really get the feeling that they know the man they're after." During a race riot outside a high school in the Chicago suburb of May wood, Sheriff Joseph Woods had his tape crew record the entire scene. When police brutality was later charged, Woods simply hauled out his tapes and proved his deputies innocent...
...belatedly, lawmen and lawyers are beginning to recognize the advantages of video tape. In Detroit, police lineups of suspects have been videotaped, making it possible for witnesses to do their viewing when convenient for them. An added benefit for assault and rape victims: they do not have to undergo the trauma of physically facing the assailant again. In fact, the only drawback many police departments see to video tape is price. The complete Ampex system of camera, sound recorder and receiver, which is generally conceded to be the best and most adaptable, costs $1,654 for just...
Uncle T's enchantment with electronic gadgetry is evident the minute you walk into his studio. His engineer keeps a tape of electronic sounds running throughout the show, and when T is speaking, the tape channel fades in and out. A dial on the table where T sits controls the reverb chamber. A foot pedal sends his voice, or whatever is playing, underwater for "waa-waa" effect...
Last Saturday, T ended his program with a 10 minute cut from a Lenny Bruce tape. The monologue described Jesus and Moses coming down to earth one Sunday morning to hear "a double billing with Sheen and Spellman at St. Pats." They enter during the sermon and sit down at the rear of the Cathedral. Spellman directs Sheen to "put on the chorus for 10 minutes" and calls up Rome for instructions. "Don't look now," Sheen interrupts, but here come the lepers." The dialogue is at once screemingly funny and extremely offensive to the Church. It ends with Spellman...