Word: phonograph
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...phone. The voices of both actors were played by Peter Sellers. At the BBC he found colleagues who gave lunacy a good name. On radio and film, the members of the Goon Show climbed Mount Everest from the inside, scrubbed a field with soap and took a phonograph needle in hand and ran circles around the record for low fidelity...
...conductor, and they set about having their four children. The playboy is transformed into the proud papa. Proud but sometimes perplexed: the first time Rubinstein's daughter Eva asks him to play something, he goes to the keyboard, deeply touched, only to find that she meant on the phonograph...
...them can win. Their technologies are so dissimilar that the discs of one cannot be played on the other's machine. Just as the 33%-r.p.m. audio record won out over the 45-r.p.m., ultimately one company will dominate the market. While RCA essentially uses a phonograph-like needle to "read" its discs, Magnavox uses an optical laser. Magnavox machines offer more features, such as stereo sound, freeze frame, slow motion and reverse viewing. Partly because of its advanced technology, Magnavox's players are likely to be more expensive: they list for $775, vs. RCA's expected...
...runaway price rises will fan inflation in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. Affected are not only the price of gasoline and heating oil but also the cost of thousands of products made from petrochemicals?goods ranging from fertilizers and laundry detergents to panty hose and phonograph records. Oil price hikes will bear on apartment rents and the price of food brought to stores by gasoline-burning trucks. The price boosts act as a kind of gigantic tax, siphoning from the pockets of consumers money that would otherwise be used to buy non-oil goods and services, thus depressing production...
...last of the menagerie's precious trio is the glass animal herself, the crippled--"not crippled, you have a defect," says Amanda--Laura. Laura evokes only sympathy, smothered in abuse and pain, hopelessly shy, wandering alone in her own world of phonograph music, long winter walks and dear glass creatures. Williams is at pain to show that she most resembles her favorite glass friend, a tiny unicorn--"aren't they extinct in the modern world?" who is "crippled" by his horn but loses it in an accident, suddenly, like all the other glass horses, less freakish...