He arrived with a bulky tape recorder which he placed prominently on the table.
As he can no longer read, he uses cassette tapes and audio books, played with a bulky tape machine which he works by feel.
The moment was reminiscent of the 1970s and '80s, when undercover agents recorded conversations with mobsters using a bulky tape recorder strapped around their waists, and wires — connected to a microphone — secured to their chests with an adhesive.
They ride their bikes into the wind, fiddle with a bulky old tape recorder, play at private games, have spats and hang out at an abandoned house strewn with debris.
As gazillions of video recordings reach the end of their useful life, it occurred to me that unlike the LP, and Polaroids, the demise of the big, bulky VHS tape hasn't been mourned half so much as it deserves.
The hacker was, in a sense, a hacker: A concertgoer who lugged a bulky, battery-powered tape recorder into Avery Fisher Hall without being noticed by the ushers and made an unauthorized recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting a concert version of "Gotterdammerung" with the soprano Eileen Farrell and the tenor Jess Thomas.
But the dreadful reality of these battle scenes is considerably sapped by Ray's bizarre, presumably semi-delirious behavior, involving total nudity and his brother's bulky manuscript duct-taped to his body like a suicide bomb.
Phillips had already transformed the bulky reel-to-reel tape technology, exhibiting the first compact cassette tape at a fair in West Berlin in 1963.
Dragging her bulky reel-to-reel tape recorder from house to house in cities in Canada and the United States, she captured well-known songs like "Roizhinkes Mit Mandeln" ("Raisins and Almonds") and lesser-known material like "A Brivele der Maman" ("A Little Letter to Mama") and "Oy, di lumpn /zey zenen shpionen" ("Oh, the lumpen / they are spies").
Apple's MessagePad 2100, which uses the Newton operating system, is one of the most elegant of all the PDAs on the market, but alas it is also as bulky as a VCR tape.
Customs agents, suspicious of a woman's bulky clothing, discovered she had tape wrapped around her torso.
