The men's high bar individual final last night in Athens exemplifies what infuriates some people about how NBC (and other networks before it) present a taped Olympics from outside the United States -- namely how they save the best events for prime time.
Before presenting a magnificent tape of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, he challenges listeners to forget about the work's bird-song and thunderstorm imagery and rather hear it entirely as an exploration of the relationship between the keys of F and C. The titles of the last three lectures suggest the historical panorama Bernstein is drawing.
The tape presented a very different scene.
But, as Mr. Gotti's lawyer, Gerald L. Shargel, is fond of noting, the prosecutors have yet to present a live witness or a tape of a mobster declaring directly that Mr. Gotti is the boss.
(They had met at the White House a few days earlier — the President had presented McRaven with a tape measure).
In his autobiography, Anfield Iron, Liverpool legend Tommy Smith wrote that Gerry Marsden, the band's lead singer, had presented Bill Shankly with a tape recording of the song.
Then, in 1997, her son Hermann Simon, a historian, presented her with a tape recorder, and she began to talk, relating her experiences in careful chronological order on 77 tapes, continuing up until a few days before her death.
Pavel Büchler (work pictured) presents an installation fashioned from a tape deck, a tape loop and a bottle of whisky.
Prosecutors say the tape clearly presents a confused and vulnerable Thomas who died because one bully cop picked a fight and another lost control and slammed Thomas in the face repeatedly with his stun gun.
On March 31, TCM will present an interview she taped with Robert Osborne last year at the TCM Classic Film Festival.
