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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
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Subject: Re: Cinema vs TV vs Plays vs ...
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 01:08:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 01:08:03 1984
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> >    						...and every hour,
> >    on the hour, a chorus of little beeps washed across the wrists
> >    of the audience like the mating calls of a flock of time birds.

> Yeah, that's pretty annoying in a flick, it's probably worse in a
> play.

Worse yet at a concert. Murphy's Law being what it is, it's guaranteed that
the watches will sound the D just below the E flat that the violins have
just soared up to and are now playing pianissimo, the one that defines
the whole mood of the slow movement...

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
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