Word: fi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sebring's establishment, which has doubled in size since he first set up shop in 1959 (last year he grossed about $50,000, expects to do $100,000 this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work on damp...
...began to move into the rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf's acquaintance...
...light, and she had an incredible ability to sing very softly at that altitude. No one could match her messa di voce-the technique of holding a single note while in creasing and diminishing its volume. She did it as if she were twirling a knob on a hi-fi amplifier. Some of this was wasted on numbers like Old Black Joe, but she al ways sang parts from the operas in which she had won her fame, from Norma to Lucia di Lammermoor...
...East 66th Street. He chose "neutral" furnishings "to let the paintings do the coloring." To create more space, Bunshaft removed a wall separating the entranceway from the dining area. His TV set is placed behind a sliding Dubuffet, and from behind a Miro comes the sound of his hi-fi speaker. By using stainless steel, Formica and marble, and by keeping the place uncluttered, Mrs. Bunshaft cuts cleaning chores to a minimum...
Since the manufacturers of high-fidelity equipment first discovered that people have two ears-and therefore need two of everything else-stereophonic sound has become big business and has given the hi-fi industry a shot in the tone...