Word: tape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ireland's O'Kelly, having weathered a New York ticker-tape parade and the Washington ceremonial circuit, including St. Patrick's Day at the White House, was bounding about Chicago like a leathery leprechaun. Proving himself of noble stuff, he managed to down such items as green rice, green clam chowder and green cookies without turning green himself. Steadfastly refusing to discuss political issues, he was nonetheless proud of his calling: "I have been a politician all my life. There is no nobler profession-except perhaps that of the church." Bussing and blarneying almost every woman...
Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...
...jart likes to work with concrete music because it approximates "the infinite variety of the body's natural movements," and there is a system in his mad creations. He explains: "Concrete music can express all emotions, but it must shun the obvious sound effects. For instance, the tape can carry the sound of glass breaking, but not if the dancer mimes glass breaking. On the other hand, if you show a woman whose heart is breaking, then the sound of breaking glass is perfect...
...Invented by French Composer Pierre Schaeffer in 1948, concrete music utilizes musical and natural sounds, which are taped and re-recorded at varying speeds; bits of the tape are then spliced together in startling order...
...Sears in discreetly unmarked white envelopes all this month went 30,000 catalogues devoted wholly to its new line of men's "career-winning toupees." They ranged from the close-cropped Ivy League crew cut to the long-haired Hollywood model. Balding buyers measure their crowns with a tape sent by Sears, outline their open spaces on paper, pay $109.95 to $224.95 for a toupee-20% down, the rest in six installments. With proper care, which means alternating it with a second wig and sending it back to Sears every month or two for a dry cleaning (price...