Strange Boston Globe Headline: Intentional Or Coincidental?

[Dan.Strassberg]

For the heck of it, I googled "beam tilt." True enough, most of the
references are to the vertical radiation patterns of broadcast (radio
AND TV) transmitting antennas. However, the term is also apparently
used in connection with linear accelerators, and--most importantly, in
the context of the review you saw--it seems to be the name of a San
Francisco Bay-area rock group. So the reviwer may or may not have had
any knowledge of the technology that underlies the term thst formed
the basis for his pun.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@mail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:27 PM
Subject: Strange Boston Globe Headline: Intentional Or Coincidental?


I would not normally read a review of a rock or pop performance in the
Globe, but
today (Sept 29) such a review appeared with an eye-catching headline.
(In fact, I
did not read the whole review, just the first paragraph).  Apparently
there's a
group called "Iron and Wine" (does this wine go well with spinach?)
whose frontman
goes by the moniker Sam Beam.  So the Globe headline writer, seeing
this, decided
to write this headline over the review: "Beam tilts sound of Iron and
Wine".
Yikes...was this healine writer a radio geek purposely employing a pun
on the
term for engineering an FM or TV signal so that a prepoderance of the
emitted horizontal
wave is directed (usually) below the horizontal plane, or was it a
strange coincidence?

Here I'll enter the URL, knowing that Globe links disappear
comparatively quickly:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/09/29/beam_tilts_sound_of_iron_and_wine/


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