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...Which one is Sabrina?” my dad asked, surveying the crowd which had gathered around the boombox. It was 11 p.m. on our first Friday in Argentina, and the night was as young as my father was befuddled...
...probably in his late 60s, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses—round the coffee stand. He is dressed in a gray t-shirt beneath a navy-blue basketball jersey, both of which are tucked into his Adidas sweatpants. In one hand, he carries the Savage Garden-blasting boombox, and in the other, he totes a pink bag emblazoned with the faces of every classic Disney princess. We try, unsuccessfully, to stifle our giggles, at which he smiles toothlessly and moves on. But in moments, he is back, offering Danny a $100 American Express gift card. Danny asks...
...looser, stylized form of jazz dance. “Out in the sun havin’ fun and you’re feeling free / And I can tell you how hard this life can be / But you keep on smilin’ for me,” the boombox blares during evening practice at the Malkin Athletic Center. As the dancers break into grins while practicing handstands of sorts, it’s hard to see how the audience this weekend could not catch their contagious enthusiasm. —Staff writer Alison S. Cohn can be reached at acohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...aside the better part of the morning to set up Logitech's Wireless DJ Music System. There's a USB transmitter that plugs into the PC, a remote control with 100-meter range, and a charging station that you connect to a sound system or boombox. With three distinct, potentially tricky components, I was prepared for a slow trudge towards harmonious functionality. Instead, I was grooving to my tunes...
Enter the world of Bratz dolls, and you can see that their bedrooms are not pink with daisy pillows on the beds, though girls can get a disco ball and a Plugged In Lip CD Boombox. Introduced in the summer of 2001, the dolls are cool, urban and multicultural, with names like Roxxi and Nazalia and Jade and Fianna. They have big heads and big hair, and faces that make you wonder if Angelina Jolie licensed her lips. The designers have even solved the problem of those infuriating little Barbie shoes. The Bratz feet are huge, and when you remove...