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Telcan is as simple to operate as any other tape recorder, uses standard one fourth-inch triple-play recording tape on oversized reels. Although the tape speed is necessarily fast-120 in. per second as compared with 7½ IPS or audio recorders-Telcan records hall track so that 44 minutes of programming can be recorded on a single reel. By means of a timing device, Telcan can record television programs when nobody is home, making it possible for a viewer to run off a show exactly when he wants to see it. In fact, the day may come when...
...show purports to demonstrate "playfulness" in modern art, and in many cases it does. Lyonel Feininger is represented by a Toy City with People, 17 carved and painted wooden pieces as finely wrought as his satiric cartoons. One diminutive inhabitant is a girl no more than an inch high whose brown pigtails fly out from her head like helicopter rotors. Marisol (that's the only name she uses) checked in with a doll of a self-portrait-a foam rubber figure 3 ft. tall, with one red velvet lip, one of red silk. The doll looks like Marisol...
...slim, handsome man with heavily lidded blue eyes, Guy, at 54, is every inch a Rothschild. He personifies much of what the family name stands for: a flair for business, a love of sport, a taste for wine, art and conversation. Dressed in the British-style clothes that he prefers (he also speaks perfect English), Guy blends well against many backdrops: he is a friend and confidant of some of France's ranking politicians, raises championship horses, is a good skier and a devoted golfer. With his handsome wife, he is ready to try the latest dances, from...
...archaeology is less a matter of digging than it is of discerning. It is less large projects of reconstruction than it is large efforts of imagination and even larger exercises of scholarship. It is a provocative amalgam of insight and adventure. It is the act of finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
Ross discovered the colorful symbiosis in the pine-covered Tuxtla Mountains of southern Mexico. The ants, which are less than half an inch long, live in nests tunneled out of wood. The caterpillars, one inch long and much heavier than the ants, are the naked, vulnerable larvae of a rare butterfly...