Word: tapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both poles, Max Conrad, 65, the famed flying grandfather, discovered that his wife's enthusiastic embrace had left him with a cracked rib. "I'll get even with her on New Year's Eve when I get back to Arizona," said Max. And, with a little tape around his chest, off he went in his twin-engine Piper Aztec on a 33,000-mile tour that should take him to Alaska, the North Pole, Norway, North Africa, South America, the South Pole, New Zealand and Hawaii before he gets home...
...Story & Krapp's Last Tape--Albee, Beckett, three actors and a tape recorder. At the ATMA 496 Tremont...
...Francisco, was willing to listen to the visitor in his office one day in 1958. The guest was David Souza, from nearby Hayward, Calif., who had dropped by to try to peddle his invention: a simple, hand-operated labeling device for punching embossed letters onto adhesive plastic tape...
Hurwich liked the idea. He bought the rights for $100,000, and formed Dymo Industries Inc. with another $300.000 to produce the new tool. The Dymo labeler now comes in 20 models priced from $2.95 to $125 in a choice of 21 languages, including Greek and Japanese, and with tapes in 26 different colors. Most models resemble a hand gun, and all have a circular dial with letters and numbers. The user dials his choice, then squeezes the trigger. Out ticks the adhesive tape, ready for use on hundreds of items, from mailboxes to children's toys to underground...
...Tape. To tell her sentimental and occasionally gruesome little stories, Duras uses all the fashionable techniques of the nouveau roman. Thus L'Amante Anglaise consists of three tape-recorded interviews conducted by an anonymous questioner and presented without comment, narrative or description. The first is an expository conversation with a cafe owner; in the second, Claire's husband Pierre gives his version of the crime; in the third, the murderess herself speaks. A typical session goes like this...