Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!wildbill From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Cinema vs TV vs Plays vs ... Message-ID: <2385@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 01:08:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2385 Posted: Sat Oct 6 01:08:03 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 07:14:06 EDT References: <1673@inmet.UUCP> <142@tekchips.UUCP> <2813@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 15 > > ...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 ...Killjoy went that-a-way---> ucbvax!wildbill