Word: disc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recalling the era when radio stations blasted Iran's taking of American hostages with the song "Bomb Iran" set to the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann," disc jockeys across the country are dubbing over pop songs to produce parodies of Hussein...
...song was part of a station promotion Wednesday morning in which disc jockeys dressed as Arab sheiks and a service station offered drivers premium gasoline for 96 cents a gallon. Traffic tie-ups forced the event to end early...
...example, the theatre erupted in laughter when a disc jockey told Clay, "Years ago, I met this girl in Jersey. She was a pig. But I fucked...
BEETHOVEN: 9 SYMPHONIES (BMG/RCA). This five-disc set (also available on cassette) spearheads the first installment of BMG's ambitious "Toscanini Collection." It is an invaluable introduction to Arturo Toscanini, who was revered for most of this century as an emblem of musical perfection but is now sometimes assailed for shunning the works of modern composers. Here conducting the fine NBC Symphony Orchestra (1939-52), the maestro remains unsurpassed for precision and clarity -- even at breakneck tempos. His structural grasp of entire works is astonishing: parts build with inevitable force to form coherent, if sometimes debatable, interpretations. The digital remastering...
...economic union with West Germany, which takes effect July 1, has made East Germany (pop. 16.6 million) particularly attractive to Western companies. The investors include Pilz, a West German audio firm that is building a compact- disc plant as part of a $140 million venture with East Germany's Robotron. The factory will have the capacity to press 24 million CDs a year when it opens...