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Word: audio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thinking Man's CB Reading a book without using hands or eyes is made pleasantly possible by a Los Angeles company called Books on Tape. An immediate hit with housewives and commuters who drive to work-not to mention armchair listeners suffering from workaday eye-strain-the audio tomes are cassettes that are rented by mail at prices ranging from $6.50 to $7.50 plus $1.75 mailing charge for a 30-day period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Odds and Trends | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...Nord every 15 min. Flow Through: smoothly futuristic. Spacious waiting lounges. Plentiful baggage carts. Sidewalk check-ins, or passengers take escalators from entrance to check-in counters, then the moving sidewalk up plastic tubes to departure floors. Boarding via moving sidewalk (4 min.) to one of seven satellite stations. Audio-visual machines and bilingual signs help guide lost passengers. Longest walk: 750 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...with an overpowered orchestra, primarily because only the rockers were plugged directly into the amplification system. ELP solved the problem by equipping most instruments of the orchestra with a specially designed contact mike, ultimately feeding everything -including their own sounds- into the same mixing console. Total cost of the audio equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ELP: 72,000 Watts in the Name | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Most of the other presidents feel the rules are unnecessary because their film societies are not in direct competition with the Cambridge theaters. Martha Richardson of the Harvard Audio-Visual department also remarked that when people want a professional showing, they go to a professional theater and not a dining hall...

Author: By Sarah A. Stahl, | Title: Gone With The Wind | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...reporter got the sheep-dung story all wrong. What had happened, back in 1958, related to my then lofty position of audio-visual aide in Fairbank's famous course, "Rice Paddies." That meant that I ran the slide projector in the last ten minutes of each lecture. Fairbank would give me a box of slides he had selected and arranged; I would then show them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yaks, Yurts and Sheep Dung | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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