Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most critical test is the confrontation between President Nixon and Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox over nine White House tape recordings, which now goes to the high court (see THE NATION). The Senate Watergate committee's fight for some of the same tapes is still before the trial judge, but it may also have to be dealt with by the court this term. Meanwhile, a Ralph Nader group is seeking access to presidential papers that, it believes, will show an improper connection between an increase in federal milk-price supports and Nixon campaign contributions from milk producers. The Supreme...
...City permission to do his art on the sidewalks of Boston. The problem was, as he explains it, to convince the traffic department, the streets department, the parks department, the police department, and "every which department" that his intentions were "honorable." "It took going through a lot of red tape to show that there's a difference between art and defacing public property...
Farther down the corridor is the computer room, which controls the "audio-animatronic" displays: banks of thick cassettes slotted into a blinking steel wall, 14-track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with...
...Well, it's a little bit of both. Remember, he dismantled the recording system when he took office because he didn't like that sort of thing. It was a system which existed under Johnson and Kennedy. They didn't tape everything automatically, the way he did. But I would make the argument that something like this is a much more benign system if it's triggered automatically than if it's triggered selectively, as they...
...They taped the things secretly that for their purposes they wanted tapes of, without taping anything that they might have reason not to want a tape made of. He just set it up as an automatic system which would be voice-activated, and he had no control over...