Word: fi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fi Marathon. Sunday at the Orson Welles Three...
...million in revenues last year. Experts forecast sales this year of at least ten million of the new CB models, and Radio Shack is set to take home to its parent, Tandy Corp. of Fort Worth, an increasing share of the industry's profits. With its sales of hi-fi and stereo equipment also booming, the chain is expanding at a pace that puts it further and further ahead of its closest rivals. Lafayette Radio Electronics, for instance, was once bigger than Radio Shack, but is now one-eighth as large...
From Boston to Berkeley and at as sorted points in between, a Soviet sci-fi movie called Solaris has been gathering momentum as the latest cult film. Based on a novel by the Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Solaris has to do with mysterious goings on at a space station, staffed originally by a crew of 85, which has been drastically depleted under sinister circumstances. By the time a psychologist named Kelvin (Donatis Banionis) comes aboard, the station is populated by two disturbed scientists and a host of phantoms, including a dwarf and a nubile young girl in a blue nightie...
...leftist sympathies. A happier, realistic segment shows the early Academy Awards, presided over by a brash young newcomer named Bob Hope. Perhaps the show's most comic sequences are the ones that started out to be serious-a parade of insect mutants from post-A-bomb sci-fi epics, Elizabeth Taylor served up like a high-priced entree in Cleopatra, a series of youthquake teen films (Teen Age Cave Man is a typical example) to lure the young back into the moviehouses...
...sound. Alas, the $17.7 million hall was something else to hear-strident, cold, weak in bass. In succeeding years, a series of four acoustical repair jobs (total cost: $2.5 million) were made, culminating in the replacement of the entire ceiling in 1969. But to little avail. In 1973, Hi-Fi Magnate Avery Fisher donated $10 million to keep the place going. Accordingly, Lincoln Center put his name on it, which was just as well. His money was used for the most radical step of all. Starting last May, the hall was gutted and a new interior built...