Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stereo equipment moved rapidly, as did video-tape recording devices like Sony's Betamax (about $1,000). Trendy boots ($175 and up), gold stickpins for women, $5,400 coyote fur coats and $200 cashmere bathrobes also helped speed the buying avalanche. Says Val Holwerda, a vice president of Bullock's: "Anything soft and romantic sold well...
...presents already bought (I begin with eager anticipation in July) and having sttod in the first of many lines to get my plane ticket home, I'm set. Strains of "Alvin and the Chipmunks sing the songs of Christmas" will soon be vying with Dad's classical music for stereo time; hte battle looms. I'm not climbing the walls to leave yet; but this weekend, when my roommate and I launch the first annual "Chocolate Chip Cookie Uncooked Dough and Finished Product" munch-out, the official count-down will begin. Unofficially, it's 16 days until Christmas...
...prospect of renouncing principles for great wealth and wives for gorgeous Casilda, the two gondoliers (Stephen Montgomery and Howard M. Cohen) could have been a little more greedy, a little more torn, a little more befuddled in their predicament. Instead, under Lundeen's direction, they are merely predictable--in stereo...
...featured him with their usual platitudes, running on about the "new baseball fad" or "the teenage symbol." But the more the media mucked and raked, the more they betrayed their frenetic ignorance. They could not peg Fidrych. He seemed content to sit up in his apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that he was a bit of a flake, a nut, a loony...
...ramshackle one-story barracks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, sea In the ramshackle one-story bar racks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies...