Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips, president of Gimix Inc., a Chicago firm that computerizes entire households, has installed terminals in every room of his Chicago apartment. He uses them to dim and brighten his lights, tune his stereo, turn his television on and off, even to open and close his drapes...
...vanners do to them. The workhorse vehicle formerly coveted mainly by plumbers and other craftsmen winds up as a convertible den-bedroom-kitchen within and a showcase of accessories on the outside. Furnishings are usually elaborate, often splendid. Probably nine out of ten custom vans carry eight-track stereo, and crushed-velvet upholstery is not all that unusual. Neither are stained glass windows, wine racks, built-in television, fake fire places. Mirrors are very popular-on walls and ceilings. A few vans even boast chandeliers. Some rigs cost...
...vanner comes close to filling that bill - and would come closer except for the marvelous trick of contriving a vehicle that allows the inhabitant not only to feel at home above a highway but to be at home - stereo blaring, coffee warming...
Panting Philosophy. In the beginning it was called Beatlemania. Today it is called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously...
...Manhattan's upper Broadway, Chris Stola had replenished his stock of stereo equipment, put in a solid steel door in place of the vulnerable metal gate and was back in business. He was lucky; police had chased looters away from his store, so his losses totaled only about $2,000. But he got the jitters last week when some teen-agers bobbed their heads in the door and warned: "Next time we'll get you harder...