Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, there are patients and doctors--but the patients are exhibitionists, and the doctors are voyeurs. What is the hospital administration doing during all this? Sponsoring orgasm fests and tape-recording the prodigious sexual activity taking place throughout the building, in order to market those tapes as aphrodisiacs for the public. This is no ordinary hospital. But then, this is no ordinary book...
Like most of Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout permutations, Walter Starbuck wants nothing more than to live simply in a small house with a nice wife and some respectful children. What thwarts his dreams, as usual, is America's tangled red-tape bureaucracy and cut-throat competition, epitomized in Jailbird by the RAMJAC corporation, a sprawling conglomerate that controls almost all of the world's large companies...
Likening judges to spiders "in black robes spinning webs of red tape," Joseph Califano, ex-secretary of Health. Education, and Welfare, railed against the influence the judicial system has on federal agencies at the Kennedy School Forum last night...
That season Beckford reset her mile record at the Mason-Dixon Games at 4:45, crossed the tape only one-tenth of a second behind Jan Murdoch for a silver medal in the 800 at the Milrose Games in New York and took third place at Senior Nationals in the same event...
Judge Ferguson emphasized that he was not ruling on the use of VTRs outside the home, as in schools or corporations; their application to pay or cable TV; tape duplication or "tape-swapping, organized or informal." All these issues will eventually have to be resolved, either by other courts or Congress. A 1976 copyright law passed by Congress was partly aimed at the problems raised by such technological innovations as photocopiers and audio tape recorders, but left as many questions open as it answered. Dorothy Schrader, general counsel for the U.S. Copyright Office, points out: "If off-air taping...