Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Volpe International Building at Logan Airport, waiting for the Pope. Journalists from all over the world, all over the country. Rectangular tags with green and yellow markings; rectangular tags with purple and brown markings; diamond-shape tags with yellow and white markings--the Pontiff's colors. Cameras and tape-recorders and typewriters--more than 100 of them lined up like altar boys on about 20 tables in the makeshift filing center--and telex machines. Long-distance and local phones, lots of them, with quadralingual dialing instructions posted strategically. People are chatting in English, Italian, German and Latin...
...trouble is that record breaking seems to be having the opposite effect for Carter. Come to think about it, that presidential compulsion may have helped to do in Johnson (more education bills, more health programs, more guns and more butter), and Nixon (best organized, first to tape all office conversations, most beyond...
...secret trip to Moscow in 1972 marked my introduction to the use of the "babbler." This was a cassette tape I had brought with me, which played a bizarre recording of what seemed like several dozen voices talking gibberish simultaneously. If I wanted to confer with my colleagues without being overheard by listening devices, we would gather around the babbler, speaking softly among ourselves. Theoretically anyone listening in would be unable to distinguish the real conversation from the cacophony of recorded voices. Whether it worked or not we could never be sure. The only certainty was that anyone trying...
...though someone placed a tape recorder under director Terry Jones' pillow that repeated over and over, while he slept, "I will NOT do anything too outrageous." Except for a brief sequence in which an animated spaceship picks up Graham Chapman in the middle of a 100-yard plunge, whisks him into a brief take-off on Star Wars, and then dumps him back where he would have landed anyway, the plot line of Life of Brian is alarmingly coherent...
These concessions were cordially received by Congress, but another compromise provoked an uproar. In an effort to win approval of the Energy Mobilization Board, which will speed up energy production by cutting red tape, Carter abandoned a demand that the board be empowered to override federal and state law. Unfortunately, the House Commerce Committee had not been informed by Carter operatives and had approved a bill with these powers intact. When Committee Member John Dingell learned of Carter's switch, he acidly remarked: "The Administration has the capacity to surprise its friends and please its enemies...