Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flying Circus, which is descended in turn from the gone-but-not-forgotten Goon Show of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. From the Goons, the Monty Python crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These...
...bureau's 14 investigators who visit the accused businessmen. The bureau has obtained refunds and cost adjustments amounting to $267,000. Says Jellison: "No one in our bureau says 'Sorry, we have no jurisdiction.' We pride ourselves on cutting through bureaucratic red tape...
Within a year, according to SEC Chairman William Casey, a single national stock-market ticker tape will be reporting the prices and volume of all major stock trades, wherever they take place. Most exchanges now have their own separate tapes that go mainly to brokerage houses in the immediate area; an investor buying stock in New York, say, rarely has any idea at what price the shares are changing hands in Chicago or San Francisco. The SEC's idea is to publish all this information on a single tape so that investors can get a feel of the total...
...whom conclude at the first glance that they have no interest. Now Victor Klein, a real estate broker in Westport, Conn., has an idea that could eliminate most of the bother. Using an inexpensive Sony TV camera and playback unit that is simple to operate, he puts on video tape the interior and outdoor views of the houses that clients want to sell and shows the tapes to prospective buyers on his office TV set. After looking at the houses on TV, the buyer can then select for personal inspection only the few homes that appeal...
Klein, a former sportswear manufacturer in Manhattan's garment district who switched to selling real estate only eight months ago, has used the video-tape system for only 21 months. Sales generated so far by his homemade TV shows total eight houses. The idea is spreading. For $4,000, Klein offers to supply other real estate brokers with a camera, TV set and a week-long instruction program detailing how to operate the unit. Already eight brokers have signed up, giving Klein a fast profit on his $30,000 investment...