Word: disc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food was running low. Every day the people asked a tribal elder when the warming sun would return. But Sun Watcher, as he was called, sadly shook his head. The sun father, he said, was still journeying away. Then one day, when it seemed as if the far-off disc had barely risen above the horizon, Sun Watcher's wizened face broke into a smile. The sun father, he announced, had decided to return. The days would become longer, and a new planting season could begin...
Osborne 1 ($1,795). The first of the sewing machine-size portable computers, the Osborne 1 squeezes into a 24-lb. package a video monitor, a pair of disc drives and the two programs indispensable to businessmen: financial forecasting and word processing. Despite its eye-straining 5-in. screen, 55,000 Osborne 1 models were sold in 1982, bringing the total number shipped to nearly...
...hopes the neighbors will take it as a sign of her modern outlook. Sabrina, 20, has a small part in a regional production of Oklahoma! Edwin, the man she lives with, is 43 and drives a bus for retarded adults whom he entertains with music tapes and disc-jockey patter...
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights (Hannibal). Stifled emotion, broken marriages, betrayal: a series of linked love songs on the year's most pitiless, passionate disc...