Word: splicing
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Lilly is at that delicate point in life where she must splice her youthful spirit to a mature independence. But before these ends can meet, she has to overcome her emotional dependence on men. Father was a remote figure who supplied money but no affection. After her mother's death, Lilly goes to New York where she becomes a dress manufacturer's model...
...Kalb, Ill., which was a major manufacturing center for barbed wire in the late 1800s, is a favorite hunting ground. Armed with metal detectors, collectors forage through old farm land, overgrown ravines and even garbage dumps. Most obey a strict credo: ask permission before snipping a barb, and splice new wire in its place...
...such an alteration. This expert, who has done considerable bugging, wiretapping and taping for the Government, also raises the possibility that the tape submitted to the court might not be the original recording but a copy. It might have been made in a bungled attempt to alter and then splice parts of the initial tape. To this expert, the telltale sign is the series of clicks during the hum. Clicks, he reports, are produced when unskilled tamperers try to cut and splice tape. The buzzing sound then might even have been introduced to try to conceal the earlier attempt...
...polemical zeal to point out discrepancies left unresolved in the courtroom, Charach raises another serious question: the validity of his own cut-and-splice technique of trial by celluloid...
...ultimate Rascoe exile-Margaret in the title novella-is a film editor trying to splice all her scenes together in the futile hope they will spell home. This means renegotiating her definition of family with a half brother she has not seen since she was six, parents on the verge of divorce and an old lover whom she seems destined from birth to reject...