Word: compacter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology takes consumer electronics one step beyond the compact disc. Like CDs, DAT is a product of the digital recording techniques that use computers to sort sound into billions of bits of information before they are put on magnetic tape. While current models of CD players can only play music, however, digital tape machines can also record live music and copy other recorded music...
...sketching a naked young man. She plays a woman not unlike herself, a greeting-card artist seeking to outgrow a Goody Two-Shoes image in her work and life. The youth she is drawing -- or maybe only imagines she is drawing -- is her son's Dartmouth roommate. He is compact and dark. Or lanky and blond. Two actors, John K. Linton and Barry Tubb, have the role but do not alternate: they are often onstage at the same time, embodying different aspects of the character. For that matter, Moore is not alone either: much of the time, Lynn Redgrave...
With the Christmas wrapping off, the compact motorbikes with balloon tires must have sent visions of roughriding adventure revving through tiny heads. But youngsters who roar off on their shiny new all-terrain vehicles had better watch out: the three- and four-wheelers can be fatal...
...Seeburg's jukeboxes are back, playing compact discs instead of 45s. For $1, customers can listen to three selections from CDs (the jukebox accepts no change). Eighteen plays can be heard for $5. One major attraction is that a CD jukebox can play 700 to 1,000 different songs, compared with the 200 or so that are offered by a traditional machine. Seeburg expects to sell 4,500 of its new jukes by next June...
...purveyors of this serpentine plot, the cast of Pirates really does have something to sing about. Particularly good are Zeidenberg, who has a voice which sounds like something off a compact disk, and the darkly cherubic David Schrag as the Pirate King...