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Word: hifi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, high-fidelity stereo came to the VCR in the form of Beta hifi. The VHS version followed this year. Both are capable of extraordinary sound and their prices are accordingly high (list prices usually start at $1,000). Moreover, now that TV stations are beginning to broadcast programs in stereo, the machines can record in stereo as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Decisions, Decisions | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...simpler but perhaps more moving case first, is a widower, standing on the cusp of old age, living on his late wife's money on a ranch somewhere in Bunuel country. He reads, plays chess against a computer, vigorously conducts the music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adventures in Hopeless Love | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

There is only one office at Harvard where the phones never ring. It's not easy to find. Follow a narrow alleyway off Mt. Auburn St.--between Tech Hifi and Claverly Hall-and turn right, towards a tiny, ivy-covered, square brick building. Walk up a few steps and in through the front door, and there it is: a small room with low ceilings, fluorescent lights, wall-to-wall carpeting, a few plants, and eight or nine desks...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Behind the Lines: | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

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