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...Taped. There it was. The real truth in the midst of veiled and chaotic maneuvering. Why not tape those conversations with the Governor? What did it matter when one was battling for a just cause against an unscrupulous adversary? In Bobby's view of political combat, enemies often must be fought on their terms. The good of the nation and a higher morality demanded it. History would understand...
...able to zero in on the ball, but the Harvard hitter may have to alter his number 00. Voleyball's rules require players to wear a number between one and 99 inclusive. If a referee insists on enforcing the rule. Doyle says that he will "take two pieces of tape and make myself number...
...What are the requirements for modern opera?" asked Zimmermann before his suicide in 1970. "The answer can be given in one sentence: Opera as total theater! In other words: architecture, sculpture, painting, musical theater, spoken theater, ballet, film, microphone, television, tape and sound techniques, electronic music, concrete music, circus, the musical and all forms of motion theater combine to form the phenomenon of pluralistic opera. In my Soldaten I have attempted to take decisive steps in this direction...
...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...
Bottom-line types beef about everything from home recording and sales of blank tape cassettes to the boom in home video games and the counterfeiting of albums. Jules Yarnell, special counsel for the Recording Industry Association of America, estimates that companies lose $800 million every year through counterfeiting, piracy and bootlegging. Walter Yetnikoff, president of CBS Records Group, figures the industry loses 20% of its revenue just from home taping. Jack Reinstein, treasurer of Electra/Asylum/ Nonesuch Records, calculates 400 million albums were taped off the air in 1980 alone, "without any compensation to the artist, the songwriters and publishers...