Word: taping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech at the library's opening ceremony, President James B. Conant '14 extolled Lamont's virtues: "The conventional red tape of library bureaucracy has disappeared. The undergraduate in quest of knowledge or inspiration, whether he is self-propelled or motivated by dread of approaching examinations or papers to be written, can go directly to the shelves...
Vignettes pop up. The sound of music throughoutwarm June weeks as one editor tape-recorded (verynew then) stacks of borrowed records so he couldtake home an instant music library afterCommencement. The editor who was rarely seenwithout a yo-yo; the senior who spent, or so hesaid, a whole term in the stacks of WidenerLibrary, working out a system to beat the horses.Endless poker games...
...York police to find out if they would pick up some guns from my apartment. They told me to sell them to a gun dealer. I told them I thought footage of the police gun-retrieval squad at my apartment would be more Access Hollywood-friendly than a tape of me and a gun dealer. They put me on the phone with Detective Walter Burnes, who said I'd probably get a visit if I called 911. "If I'm the desk sergeant, I send the car over for anything," he explained. "You tell me you scratched your nose...
...drivers and their families attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...
...President Clinton was preparing to fly out to Littleton to mark the one-month anniversary of the massacre, the Senate was debating a juvenile-crime bill. Then the bulletins flashed across TV screens, we were back in the helicopter over yet another school, more running children, fluttering yellow crime tape, flushed sheriffs, nodding anchormen. We didn't know what it would take to pass the first modest gun-control provision in five years...