Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giannini still studies his parts in the same dogged way he used to crack his engineering books. "Details, details, details," he laments. "Perfection. I go too far." For Mimi, he spent weeks in Sicily armed with tape recorders and cameras, studying local speech and mannerisms. "Once I've formed an idea of a character," Giannini reports, "I confront him from the outside. I start with the spinal cord, which is basic to his carriage, his entire nervous system. I must decide how he stands and carries himself in the world. Next, his arms-how does he reveal himself through...
Senator Henry Jackson, 63. Has allergies to adhesive tape, strawberries, eggs, plated gold and wool, and suffers chronic nasal stuffiness. In 1974, kidney stone removed with no complications; recovered from pneumonia in 1945 and 1951. Generally "in excellent overall health...
...only the gargantuan volume but also the suddenness of the price runup. An institutional market tends to be more volatile than one in which individuals do a large share of the trading. Reason: individuals tend to hold their stocks longer. Institutional managers, with nothing to do but watch the tape, trade frequently, knowing that the magnitude of their transactions will enable them to make money on price movements-25? a share, say-that are too small to mean anything to the private investor...
Hall says not that although the idea for the machines--which would encode student hand-prints in magnetic tape on bursar cards--came out of his office, he takes no direct credit for them. But at the time he said he thought the installation of such a machine would be reasonable in light of the money that it would save...
...reason for Dorothy's clockwork anxiety is simple lack of confidence. "I think I look lousy," she says. When an ABC sports crew offered to rerun a video tape of her free-skating program in Colorado Springs, she declined. She is particularly afraid that a fall will ruin her performance. "Think how much time I've put into this, and how much other people have to help me. With one mistake, it could all go down the drain...