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...equipped with auxiliary tape decks. The fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony Edwards...
...discover more about herself, she began wandering round at night, talking to Automat eccentrics and street-corner sages. She still does it. "In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character," says Joni...
...remote in time from it as ours is from ancient Greece. The neons still work, but they do so with fitful spareness; a cunningly formed squiggle lights up here or there, or a labyrinth of reversed and superimposed red letters glows inside a dark plastic box. They spell AUTOMAT, but in fact they defy reading. The signs have ceased to signify. They are fragments-not in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language, the passage written in Minoan Linear B. The work...
...money to help buy Hanover House Industries, a $17 million-a-year mail-order business. Guterman also is talking joint hotel-restaurant ventures with a big motel builder. The vaudeville aura seems to have carried him away, however; he has approached Soviet authorities with the idea of opening an Automat in Moscow. "Can you imagine the excitement that would provoke?" he beams...
With Blodgett domesticated, Smackenfelt seems to develop an unnatural desire to be helpful. Dressed as a priest for a part in a play, he wanders into an automat between shows and starts dispensing spiritual advice to a woman at his table. During a brief job at a large corporation, he impersonates a vice president and summarily fires those who seem unhappy in their work, He is finally caught and dismissed for "malversation of coffee break...