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Plastic Surgery. Lip sync is symptomatic of a profound change that has gripped the recording industry. With each new advance in technology, the sound of recorded music-revved up reverberated, splintered, stirred, spliced, multiplied, filtered, equalized-passes further into a kind of aural twilight zone. For every hour that a classical or pop artist spends recording music today, technicians devote an average of four hours to doctoring it. The result, though few listeners realize it, is that the age of machine music is already here, and for better or worse it is reshaping the world of music making...
...experiments-ten more than Gemini 4. Five of them involved photography. Clicking away with a modified Hasselblad 70-mm. reflex camera and a 35-mm. camera, Cooper and Conrad photographed the moon, the eye of Hurricane Doreen east of Hawaii, and the zodiacal light above the horizon just after twilight and just before dawn-gaining invaluable information for meteorologists and astronomers. They sighted and photographed the firings of two Minutemen missiles, launched to coincide with Gemini's passover. They took infra-red measurements of volcanoes, land masses and blasts from rockets to determine what infra-red heat sensors could...
...golden twilight of the 19th century, most U.S. artists were mainly tourists. They had succumbed to what Henry James diagnosed as "the great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene...
...Twilight Zone." To several Senators, that was not enough, and Senator Long, the bill's floor manager, spent most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat...
...Twilight Schools let tough boys who disturb regular classes as they near the dropout age of 16 go instead to small all-male classes from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m., getting on such personal terms with teachers that sometimes they play basketball with them after class. Explains Coordinator Robert Belt: "The boys don't have audiences to show off how disruptive they might be-there are no girls." Three-fifths of the 180 boys enrolled in two such pilot schools are to return to normal classes in the fall and remain in school past...