Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Personics, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, may make both sides happy. The computerized Personics machines, which will be introduced in five California record stores this summer, will enable the consumer to make a customized cassette tape by choosing from an initial inventory of 1,000 songs. After consulting a catalog of available selections, the customer gives the order to a clerk, who transfers the music from a master optical disk to a blank cassette, and may use a computer to print a custom label for the tape. The high-speed equipment can record 40 minutes of music in less than...
...routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack of faith lie just beneath the bright madras and sturdy poplin...
...best way to get high quality recordings for low prices is cutouts. These are recordings that a record company has decided to delete from its catalog, often because they want to make them available only in compact disc. Places like the Harvard Coop sell hundreds of them for about half the price of other recordings. They require rummaging through--there is much tripe among the treasure--but they often reward patience. Records' liner notes, by the way, often provide interesting information about the composer, piece and performers...
...Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct mail are the most effective way to target them. Kotler cites the Sharper Image, a top-of-the-line techie catalog, as defining U-DINK style...
...puddles of rancid goo. A woman's nipples that open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...