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...waitress ("a respectable job," Marshall assured her), but her husband unexpectedly found a job back in Cleveland. Neither she nor her husband, she explained, could afford to quit and risk unemployment. Separated from her family, without enough money to visit, the woman explained her "fantasy", she wanted a tape recorder so that she and her children could hear one another's voices instead of relying only upon letters...
...time for perspective. Histories of failed projects, cruddy judgements and outright lunacy paint a decidedly one-sided portrait. As the first one in on a project, the writer inevitably feels the dilution of his own vision each step of the way. Adventures's off-the-tongue-and-into-the-tape recorder style attracts and nauseates at the same time, especially when Goldman gets self-effacing about his early years, or misty-eyed about being haunted by his own limitations, or arriving at universal "human truths" from his "own unique angle...
...women's squad was led by sophomore Maraquita Peterson, who scored 15 points by herself. She won both the 400-and 110-meter hurdles, moving from fourth place after the last hurdle to first by the time she got to the tape. She also leapt 17 feet to capture first place in the long jump as well...
When the Chatham County commission refused to let him place his tape recorder on its meeting table, Windsor raced home and fetched in his own little French provincial table and parked the tape recorder there. After that, the machine was allowed to rest on the commission's table...
...Andrews' tragic act of self-destruction [March 21] shows that people like to see others get hurt. Consider the excess of violence on television and in films. While TV-news leaders condemned the judgment of WHMA's news director, the major networks all showed portions of the tape that recorded a man setting himself on fire. The networks cannot resist satisfying the public's grisly appetite...