Word: radio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason American ears have not been as responsive as the music merits. He brings rock to the music hall, overlays it with suggestions of '50s club jazz and well-shaken pop, and comes up with a sound that seems to fall between any two stations on your radio dial. You can drift easily along with an aged-in-wood Price ballad like i Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like a serpent in the sheets. Price is a jaded romantic with a misfit imagination...
...that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion (he had all the voting stock) now encompasses 29 newspapers (biggest: the Newark Star-Ledger and the Cleveland Plain Dealer), seven magazines, five radio stations and a score of cable TV systems. Running his empire out of a battered briefcase, Newhouse cared little about his papers' content and read only their bottom lines. Said he: "Only a sound business operation can be a truly independent editorial enterprise...
...persuaders seem to be making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed before audiences to give them an extra scare. The tactic may have worked. Warner Bros, is being sued by an Indiana teenager who fainted during the movie, breaking his jawbone and several teeth. His lawyer contends that the fleeting death mask is "one of the major issues" in the case...
...hard to turn on a television set or radio without hearing Joe Garagiola, the baseball catcher turned pitchman, importuning customers to come in and collect $400 price rebates on all Chrysler models except for the most popular small cars like the Omni and Horizon. The company's advertising agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, and some 25 other suppliers and service agents are giving additional rebates of $100 to $500 to any of their employees who buy Chryslers. In addition, Chrysler since May has been granting its dealers special discounts that now range from $325 to $1,500 per auto. These cuts...
...newspaper. He then has an urge to call up the Secretary of the Treasury and tell him, "I just tried out two of your dimes on Times Square, and they worked like a dream. It looks like another great day for the coinage!" He hears a radio news broadcast and has another offbeat response: "The newscaster spoke with a barking sort of hilarity, as though life were a comical steeplechase, with unconventional steeds and hazards and vehicles involved. He made me feel that even I was a contestant - in a bathtub drawn by three aardvarks, perhaps...