Word: phonographers
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Paul and Sue dropped acid. They tripped over to Soldiers' Field and split another cap on the fifty-yard-line. Then they walked to the Business School, glided into an empty court yard, and heard the "Tara" theme from Gone With the Wind being played on a distant phonograph...
...romantic attempts to tumble into poignancy echo Francis Lai's Love Story theme, but here the music seems to actually reflect the true excesses of its period. In fact, in the film's climactic scene, Hermie places a big band treatment of the film's theme song onto the phonograph, and, in the wonderful moment that follows, the two realities-that of purported, remembered history and blatant movie artificiality-merge. Like a mobius strip, the film turns back on itself and, for just that second, captures some of the clumsiness and fun that can be had from authentic old movies...
...Stereo and God, by the Reverend Lincoln Lincoln. The author said that God was keeping his eye on our stereophonic phonograph. I don't know what he meant by that, but he slammed the book down very hard on the desk...
...called Schema XIII (after the Vatican II document on the church in the modern world), which tries to overcome the stodgy clerical image of competing periodicals. Methodists and Presbyterians have joined to launch a new "multimedia" mission magazine, New World Outlook, replete with poster-size foldouts and stapled-in phonograph records. The Roman Catholic Maryknoll fathers have announced a new line of "Third World" books about problems in underdeveloped countries, to be edited by Philip Scharper, formerly with Sheed and Ward...
...cartridge unit is a sort of video phonograph that converts any TV set into a home movie projector and screen. The variety of available programs should be almost endless: Olivier's Hamlet, all kinds of other films (including instant home movies), Broadway musicals, or how-to series by Arnold Palmer or Julia Child. Owners will be able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby...