When the tape started rolling, he cried out the word "Please" with an immensity of feeling that might, more conventionally, have been reserved for a song's climax.
When I rented the original film, directed by Lewis Milestone, the tape started with some material to remind viewers of what the non-Rat Pack world looked like 40 years ago.
When the tape started to roll, they stated they were "evidence gatherer" surveillance officers and explained the purpose of the operation.
The poem's margins were set by the tape's width, about two inches; it began where the tape started and ended when it ran out, with no chance for revisions as Ammons's words slalomed down its length.
"The defense lawyer's argument is always going to be that the tape started at X moment, but missed the crucial moment that came earlier, at X minus 5," said Peter Kirchheimer, supervising attorney at the Federal Defenders Division of the Legal Aid Society.
By the time the tapes started seeping out, the peace-and-love revolution had soured and the Kent State massacre – the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on 4 May 1970, killing four and wounding nine – was around the corner.
Once the tapes started, the band had to play to them, which constrained their styles.
We all have a right to defend ourselves and feel harassed," he tweeted Monday, hours after the tapes started making the rounds.
"If your'e looking for the other Ira, you're in the wrong place," Flatow warned the audience members before the tape started rolling.
