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...office, for example, is less than convincing with the noisy hilarity of a swinging singles bar audible in the background. Similarly, the hospital-visit-to-an-ailing-aunt ploy is apt to prove a dud with a boss whose receiver is also picking up the strains of a jukebox or the cries of a ballpark hot dog vendor. To prevent such pretexts from collapsing, help is finally at hand: alibi tapes...
...public James Taylor who sometimes seems to be coming in the windows. One of the newest songs on his forthcoming album?in the same vein as Sweet Baby James, but looser, more free and easy?describes the odd schizoid feeling of hearing his own voice on the jukebox...
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...pinball machines, a loud jukebox, and a driving machine that whirrs like a racing engine and goes "whump" whenever the player brushes another car are the entertainment at Omnivare...
...cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans will have by 1980) hooked to a central computer switching station with hundreds of cassettes on tap. "I call it 'jukebox TV,' " says Klein. Klein leaves NBC this week to form a company to mesh computer retrieval, CATV and the cartridge. He calls the idea "the ultimate 20th century combination,'' and optimistically predicts that it could reach the market in ten years...