Word: fm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot in the arm to the moribund pop-rock world. Record sales are way down, new and true talent rare, and it takes prehistoric monsters like Fleetwood Mac and Crosby. Stills and Nash to deliver the goods. On Marshall Crenshaw, every last track could easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon and Paul McCartney made a career...
Game time is 1:30 tomorrow, and WHRB (95.3 FM) will broadcast live. The Stadium is still only half renovated, with 20,000 of the 37,289 seats ready...
...their music! Simple, driving, compelling, and at times melodic, they put FM reactionary garbage to shame. Chairman Mao was dead wrong, as this version of the Gang of Four disagrees with-their Chinese namesakes a revolution can be a dinner party Or at least a good show...
...satisfied sigh of relief, the government proclaims every day in the press that "normalization" has come. The government claims that it has arrested seven people in Warsaw who were involved with Radio Solidarity and shut down the clandestine station, but underground transmitters continue to taunt the authorities with short FM broadcasts. By some estimates, 1,700 underground publications appear regularly. More than 100 illegal books have been published in Warsaw alone...
...service, called DowAlert, transmits spot business news, market reports, scheduled news summaries and other features via satellite to major FM stations around the country. The reports are relayed by a coded signal to a specially designed home or office radio. Subscribers can program their units to play news items about a specific company, industry or subject. The radio automatically crackles to life when information about a selected item is transmitted, and then falls silent. Most bulletins last 60 sec. or less. DowAlert, which is initially being marketed in Boston and Philadelphia, will cost $50 a month, after a $150 installation...