Word: schaumburg
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...also find yourself in the Schaumburg Snuggery. For navigational purposes, it will help to know that you are 21 miles northwest of Chicago. Not the twilight zone exactly, but not the main stem either. With a little imaginative set decoration, the Schaumburg Snuggery could be converted to a roadhouse from a John O'Hara novel; a juke joint from the Big Band era; a belly-up beer parlor with a platform for a three-piece oldies combo; or the only place in America where no one has heard that disco is dead. A perfect period set-for any period...
There are eleven of them, some as big as a wallboard, others as small as your home tube. They are not there to fill the Schaumburg Snuggery with guzzlers who want to watch a weekend of football. Those eleven piercing rectangles all over the place are strictly for music. People dance and drink and date, all while seeing music...
...reeling and rocking across those eleven screens in a serenade of sensory overload. The place is packed. "We haven't played a record since last June," says the Snuggery's John Clausen, whose video disc jockeys play tapes the way radio deejays spin platters. So rock on, Schaumburg Snuggery. You may be just a secondary target in the great video blitzkrieg-the vidblitz-that has shaken up Hollywood, salvaged the record business and set up a whole new way of responding to music. But at least you're tuned in. Wired. When the global village starts...
...Schaumburg...
First Amendment. The Justices upheld a California decision, based on the state's constitution, permitting petition drives in private shopping centers. They also threw out a municipal ordinance that limited door-to-door and on-street fund raising by "cause" groups (Village of 'Schaumburg vs. Citizens for a Better Environment). Corporations, meantime, got the green light to speak out more freely in cases involving utility companies that promoted nuclear power (Consolidated Edison Co. vs. Public Service Commission) and a greater use of electricity...