Word: intercom
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...good as in "a good house in a good neighborhood." Beyond that basic aspiration lies the ubiquitous advertised vision of modern living ever flowering at one's fingertips. Mr. and Mrs. Mim's dream house would recapitulate a catalogue of status hardware: a room-to-room intercom, a "wet bar" in the "game room," an "in-ground" swimming pool and a "full" sprinkler system for the lawn, not merely a garden hose connected to one of those little spastic squirters. Ideally, all this should be found on "a couple of acres for privacy," though the fact that Squire...
Back in the firehouse they had just settled down with some cups of coffee when the intercom blared out "Attention. Rescue only. Rescue going out." The bells in the house began to ring the signal for Rescue, one short followed by one long, and the guys hit the poles and climbed in the truck...
Communications. In addition to a massive program that is gradually replacing electromechanical switching devices throughout its huge system, Ma Bell is looking into miracle chip applications that would turn the family phone into both burglar alarm and fire alarm, as well as home intercom system. Chips will be used to monitor equipment and alert maintenance teams to potential problems before they occur. Says Lee Thomas, Bell Labs' microprocessor chief: "Applications of the microprocessor five years from now will make the present ones look silly." Motorola has invested $20 million in developing a chip-operated portable phone that weighs less...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the intercom Li crackles, "out of the left side of the cabin are the remains of the Japanese Imperial Fleet." Banking sharply into the sunset, the Air Micronesia 727 circles the Truk lagoon. Coral reefs color the water in pastels of orange, yellow and green, interspersed with the darker shapes of sunken hulls. "It was on Feb. 16, 1944, that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around...
...fast pace and quick pick-up of cues essential to good comedy. The blocking is generally excellent, and the comic scenes are very well-conceived. One of the rare problems is a somewhat distorted sound system--in a critical scene when Murray listens to his boss over an intercom systvm, the words are marred by static...