Word: taping
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...George Ill's gracious acceptance of credentials from John Adams, the fledgling nation's first minister to London, in 1785. Fittingly, the monarch's words on that occasion ("Let the circumstances of language, religion and blood have their natural and full effect") were tape-recorded for the show by his great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Prince Charles...
...exports swelled for the fourth consecutive month, making a cumulative increase since the start of the year of more than 22%. Sales abroad for certain items increased dramatically: autos up 62%, household electronics (television sets, tape recorders, stereo systems) up 55%. An important factor, in addition to the U.S. recovery, has been Japan's customary willingness to sell anything to anybody. One hot item: the export of entire factories to Middle Eastern and Communist countries...
Africa's political show trial of the year was under way in Luanda last week, and seemingly everyone was tuned in. Citizens of the Angolan capital walked the streets with transistor radios pressed to their ears. In the evening, silent, intent knots of people watched tape replays of the trial over Angola's single, government-controlled TV channel. The unwilling stars of the judicial spectacular in Luanda's sandstone Chamber of Commerce building: 13 foreign mercenaries, all captured in the northern part of the country last February, who were accused in a 139-part indictment of more...
...people in Wigglesworth the 12:45 train into Harvard Square is an annoying shudder coming up from the basement. But for a small group of fanatics, the 12:45 is a sacred institution. These are the subway freaks--the guys who tape small maps of the MBTA to their wristwatch bands, who let three trains pass until they get the right car, who make tape recordings of the Muzak at the Park Street station...
...Hero is apparently in tended both as humorous metaphor and, in Menotti's words, as "a gentle, good-natured plea for Americans to wake up to reality, to abandon self-congratulatory illusions, to return to their former rugged individualism." The opera invites easy comparisons. There is a tape-erasing scene (David's awakening has been recorded); though the Nixon tapes are not mentioned, the point is obvious. Operatic comparisons are also in order. The Hero is a reverse twist on Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, that maudlin, heavy-handed tale about the impersonation of a dead...