Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes to limit the city's population to 4,000,000 (it is now approaching 3,000,000). He calls for the building of a rapid-transit rail system, free public transportation for people over 65, and the appointment of a city ombudsman to help cut bureaucratic red tape. Yorty is content with merely echoing that Los Angeles is the greatest, and that he is the man to keep it going and growing the way it has been. As an aide says: "There is a kind of comfort with Sam Yorty." But pre-primary polls showed that this year...
...totally dedicated to burning their lives out like roman candles in mad pursuit of the Edge, Carter and Steele have found an economical and princely mode of transport. Riding on stuffed sofas and listening to eight-track-tape rock, they ride from Snoqualmie to Mt. Hood to Mammoth to Squaw Valley with Carter's old skiing buddy Charley Goodrich in the Head ski van, which tends to the needs of Head racers at major events...
...contrast, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges is a private artificer. Now that his increasing blindness prevents him from working them out on paper, he describes to Interviewer Guibert how he composes his enigmatic short stories and poems, learning them by heart in silence before confiding them to a tape recorder or a secretary. Gabriel García Marquez, author of the brilliant Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, confesses that he became a conjurer with words only because he was too timid to become what he really in tended to be: a stage magician...
Bowen said that the influence of such devices such as cable television and video-tape machines is potentially as powerful as television, which consumes 54 per cent of the waking hours of the average American adult...
...tape of Bowen's lecture will be broadcast on WGBH-FM from 9 to 10:30 p.m. tonight...