Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English novelist of the 20th century for his concern with the stuff of life--manners, dress, the Right People. He continually attacks what he considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said for Wolfe's own style is that it's, well, catty. It's the style of a gossip columnist for a small-town newspaper who describes some awful shotgun wedding where all the principals involved hate each other with smug sarcasm as "a good time...
When we woke up the next morning--she was playing "Reveille," a Dizzy Gillespie version--I lit up another butt. What else could I do? I knew I would never see her again--she was mono, I was stereo. We just weren't compatible...
...room is a sea of drunk and rowdy humanity. Music blares from the stereo as people jockey for position around a fast-emptying keg of beer. No, it is not a clearance sale at the corner bar: this is the scene on many weekends at Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only fraternity...
...came back to my room, tucked away at the Quad, and bolted the door behind me. I put on a new album and turned the stereo up loud, opened a book on love by Plato, and pretended to read. Through my open window, I thought I heard a scream come from way off beyond the dorms, but I'm sure it was just my imagination...
...loud, seamless stream of glossily recorded rhythm-and-blues songs. Disco has become not only an energetic way to play the mating game but also one of the hottest subindustries in the popular-entertainment field. In terms of the hit singles that can now be made, the stereo and quad equipment that can be peddled to the club owners, and the crowds that can be drawn in at $5 or more a head, disco is a multimillion-dollar business...