Word: jukebox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not just your average secondhand, worn out, reconstituted kind of folk music. This is real folk music--you know, think back to Hum 9b--music written of the folk, by the folk, and for the folk. A far cry from the standard jukebox fare...
...suit, bow-tie, white shirt and gown that Oxford students are required to wear for Finals, may be an ardent devotee of new-wave and disco music. Latin grace at formal dinner in an often centuries-old college hall will be followed by a drink in the bar with jukebox afterwards. The computerized handouts, course information and I.D. cards in many cases just do not exist--instead there may be one college secretary who is a shy, middle-aged lady who still keeps the books in goose quill...
...stock flying, all a company has to do is hint that it might get into gambling. Shares of Ramada Inns, which is merely rumored to be interested in diversifying into gaming, have risen 267% this year. Reflecting the market's irrationality as well as its volatility, Wurlitzer, the jukebox producer, climbed several points after announcing that it was not expanding into slot machines. Though worried by the jumpiness of the stocks, the New York and American exchanges had been reluctant to do anything that might spoil the action that is profitably increasing volume and enticing people into the market...
...technical aspect of the production was a bit sloppy: it took about five minutes for the clock on the wall to come on after the scenes started, but in general the ambitious set, complete with real jukebox, was fine...
...walked on the same side of the street in a year because this was the year after the big riots at Columbia... when I walked down Broadway, on every street corner, there were groups of people singing Oldies. And, if you went to any of the bars, the jukebox had their one or two oldies...