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Word: stereo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentality that prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended up on the local black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Bitter Battle over Bases | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...bona-fide Toga Party, or so they claimed. Since no one was sufficiently familiar with the rites of Toga, participants behaved according to American '70s' custom. Beer and vodka flowed, the usual dislocated mutterings that pass for conversation at such gatherings coalesced into a dull roar, and the megaton stereo boomed out a never-ending series of syncopated disco thuds. Occasionally someone would chase a friend through the crowd threatening affectionately to straighten her (his?) toga or die trying, but onlookers just smiled timidly and continued to sip their punch...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Send in the Animals | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

Screwdriver in hand, Andy Kasper stands back and purveys his work. Kasper, a senior in Kirkland House, has undertaken the task of transforming his N-entryway suite into a disco--"The Jamaican Lounge"--complete with raised dance floor, pecan wood paneling, stereo cabinet and loft with furry leonine carpeting...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: K-Land Bandstand | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...dance floor is the coup de grace of what is proving to be one of the more original--and expensive--rooms on campus. Kasper and his seven roommates have spent some $300 on materials such as wood, nails and plexiglas. This does not include the $2000 stereo with four large speakers that regularly blasts such tunes as "Space Cowboy" at odd hours of the day and night...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: K-Land Bandstand | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...over three decades. Chopin's demanding B-flat-minor sonata, a Horowitz signature, is here. The Favorites album shows Horowitz's quieter side, with such masterly but unpretentious works as Scarlatti's Sonata in E-Major and Mendelssohn's Variations Sérieuses. Even without stereo tracking, the playing here is what Horowitz fans expect: the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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