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...side of him is a elegant-looking woman, with flowing blonde hair. She wears a sparkling evening gown and white tennis shoes, bouncing up and down to the pounding beat. To the other side of the man is another woman who is banging away on a keyboard. Her red miniskirt and beehive hairdoo stand out. At the back of the stage are two more clean-cut-men--preppy almost, were it not for their New York intelligentsia slacks and shirts. One, head down, is slinging away on lead guitar, sending up the wall of sound that has enveloped the theatre...

Author: By Michael J. Abrameichz, | Title: Bombs Away | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Once they settle in they feel no inch nation to drop their cultural baggage (it got them this far didn't it) so they maintain previously cultivated routines mornings runs afternoon swims evening basketball. Even mailbox heads who spend all night at the computer keyboard keep on twitching enough to pour-out a couple buckets of sweat every...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Straus Cup Casualities | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Bach-Packing in the Woods | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

From the start, the Apple team did almost everything right. First they redesigned the prototype into a trim, spiffy model called Apple II. Jobs insisted that the cases for the keyboard and video display be made of light, attractive plastic instead of metal. They also wrote clear, concise instruction manuals that made the machine easy for consumers to use. Sales surged from $2.7 million in 1977 to $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seeds of Success | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...dominate the console market. None of them accepts game cartridges made for the other two. Magnavox's Odyssey 2 costs about $200 for the basic console and $15 to $50 for cartridges. It has good joystick controls, but otherwise is not very satisfactory. The console incorporates a typewriter keyboard, but not much use is made of it in the game cartridges. Graphics seem perfunctory, and the games generally are too shallow to interest adults. Dynasty, a promising maze puzzle based on the Chinese game Go, is too easy to be interesting. Cryptologic is a not-very-mystifying letter substitution code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Alien Creatures in the Home | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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