Word: hi-fi
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...decorators and clients alike, the most important part of the entire undertaking is the in-depth interviewing at the very outset. Do the members of the family live formally or informally? Do they favor buffet suppers or sit-down dinners? Do they play bridge? Are they hi-fi buffs? Do they have young children or teenagers? What are their hobbies? Working with a decorator is thus something like going to a psychiatrist, only more expensive: name decorators reckon on spending at least $10,000 for each room and a minimum of $50,000 for an entire house...
...male, the impact is more obvious if less real. In magazines devoted to his interests, the happily unmarried man is seen surrounded by elaborate hi-fi speakers (which he may never be able to afford), appealed to by makers of Great Books and good booze (which he may never read or drink), praised by haberdashers and hairdressers for his swinging singularity (which he earnestly aspires to), and pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten...
...likely to blur Warhol's image as the Zanuck of the nonmovie. The sound track, regrettably, is as clear as a hi-fi record, and the film is as much in focus as the average overground flick. After wobbling his camera in 60 or so pictures, demonstrating that film making is all in a flick of the wrist, could it be that, in his cinematic technique, Andy is finally going straight...
...projects, the conversion of the Bell Laboratories is by far the most ambitious undertaking. The building itself-where Herbert Hoover watched the first television demonstration, Jascha Heifetz recorded on one of the first "primitive" hi-fi systems, and Sam Warner made the first "talkie"-is peculiarly suitable, with its 10-ft. to 16-ft. ceilings, a cafeteria and an auditorium, all features that Architect Richard Meier hopes to preserve in the ren ovation. Tenants, to be screened by a citizens' committee, will be able to rent units at approximately $110 a month...
...pronounce 'em to enjoy 'em"), wide-screen color movies, and a stewardess in a tropical kimuu to pull on your slippers. Trans World Airlines was promoting its four-entree coach meals (seven entrees first class), plus its wide-screen movies and eight channels of stereo, with a hi-fi for everybody...