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...well after the late news and deep into the monster-movie hours, the time when TV punishes insomniacs with ads for truck drivers' academies and once-in-a-lifetime offers-"Send $6.98 for records, $8.98 for eight-track tapes" -for Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits and the Best of Connie Francis. Suddenly, a smoothly handsome, oddly familiar-looking young crooner appears on a softly back-lighted stage. While he pumps a microphone and purrs out a ballad, viewers begin to wonder: Como's kid brother maybe? An Italian Goulet? Then on comes the voiceover, hailing the "mood rock...
...heat. We...stay...cool," And his coolness increases, strangely enough in direct proportion to the number of his cliches, which come fast and furious. His advice to Oblio is to keep cool--like "Mother Nature sittin' at the console, lookin' at the whole scene and puttin' it on eight-track...
...Asylum label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records of new artists converted to eight-track tape for my car stereo," he says, "so I can audition while I drive...
...film entitled Who Slew Dickey-Poo? It will be filmed in Paranoia." Yet another suggested that "Pat Gray threw the tapes away in his Christmas trash." Other explanations were tonsorial ("Haldeman made his new hairpiece out of synthetic materials made from shredded tapes"), recreational ("Bebe Rebozo made them into eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting: "Nixon was watching the Redskins football game on TV. He had the tapes in his hands, and when the other team scored a winning touchdown, he got so angry that he tore the tapes to pieces." Perhaps the simplest reply...
...eight-track stereo tape system owned by W. David McCollum '71, a slide projector containing slides to have been used in the production, and a microphone from the Loeb's sound system were taken...