Word: sheparded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buried Child. Of all younger U.S. playwrights, Sam Shepard is the ablest, a man whose work not only attests to his comedic talents but also bears the imprint of the home of the brave and the land of the free, and indicates why that country today sometimes seems to be neither brave nor free...
...that radically improves the sound of conventional phonograph records and could eventually make them obsolete-may be the single biggest sound advance since technicians discovered that two speakers were better than one. "I won't say when it will happen," says RCA Records Division Vice President Thomas Z. Shepard, "but digital is definitely on its way." Robert Ingebretsen, vice president of a digital recording company called Soundstream, Inc., compares conventional record listening to "looking out a dirty window: you can see, but not perfectly. Listening to a digital recording is like looking out the same window, clean." Soundstream...
They are also a good deal more expensive-at least for the time being. A digital disc goes for roughly twice the price of an average album. "I don't see why digital recordings have to cost $15," says RCA's Shepard, who is preparing to undercut the competition with a $10 digital record of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in hot pursuit of a Bartok concerto. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., will bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus...
There is a story that one alumnus was alone and lonely in Shepard's hotel in Cairo. He let out the yell in the lobby and was immediately surrounded by Harvards...
Chez Jean, on Shepard St. off Mass Ave near the Radcliffe Quad, serves reasonably priced well-prepared, if somewhat undistinguished French country-style food...