Word: muzak
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...gaudy patriotism, as they did at Government Center. And they didn't close down the fruit and flower stand. Instead, over the summer months, the MBTA has prostituted the character of the old Park Street complex by injecting one of the most pernicious elements of 20th Century Americana -- Muzak...
...have an immense phobia about Muzak. It all goes back to 1971 when I was stranded in the Albany, N.Y., airport for nine hours. At that time I was nearly driven mad by the insidious burblings that followed me around the airport. I tried frantically to escape them. I fled into the coffee shop. They followed me. I darted into the bar. They followed me there too. They even trailed me into the rest rooms. Since that time, whenever cheerful and inane melodies seep out of wall speakers, I look uneasily over my shoulder...
...when I returned this fall and innocently descended into the Park Street station, I was horrified to find that one of the last refuges from Muzak had been stolen away from...
...year-old can repeat a song after hearing it once, the song is bound to be a hit. Musical redundancy means everything; originality and intensity are mere icing. So few popular songs have say important verbal content that it is typical to hear people chanting along with supermarket Muzak, singing words at random to an approximation of the tune. The nonsensical result is likely to be as engaging as the original...
...ears of those who would rather "hear" sound than "listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like on the Appalachian Trail. Possible uses: mellifluous Muzak for a flower shop or Japanese tearoom, or dozy balm for the pastoral-minded insomniac trapped in the big city...