Word: tunings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birth of a band: at a London flat some eight years ago, Shane MacGowan, who had more of his teeth back then, picked up a guitar and started to play an old Irish tune, Paddy Worked at the Railways. He played it fast; he played it very fast, in the best postpunk, frontal-assault style. His pal Spider Stacy clocked MacGowan's hands at "940 light-years an hour." That time, of course, was unofficial. But looking back now, it has become the official beginning of the Pogues...
MacGowan onstage is restless, perhaps combustible. If the other seven band members do a tune in which his involvement is minimal, he will take a hike into the wings. "It's embarrassing," he says. "I'm sitting on my bloody hands." Even when he's not in the thick of things, he is the Pogues' charismatic center. It was MacGowan and his writing that got Terry Woods out of retirement. At 42, Woods is older by a decade than the rest of the band, and he played with such mid-'70s English electric-folk groups as Steeleye Span, on whose...
...music lovers and electronics manufacturers, digital audio tape represented a terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans...
...election results signal anything, it is the rise of real politics in Japan. No longer will the LDP be assured of a legislative majority year after year, and no longer will it be able to use its power simply to fine tune the existing system...
...human translators should have no fear that their jobs are imperiled -- at least for now. None of the new systems are yet able to take a page of text and render it unerringly into a different language without the aid of a bilingual editor who can fine-tune the output for ambiguities in the ) vocabulary, to say nothing of shades of meaning. "A truly automatic system is a dream at the moment," admits Makoto Ihara, manager of Toshiba's computer product-planning department. Says Kazunori Muraki, a leading researcher at NEC: "Machine translation is only to reduce the work involved...