Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events of ecstatic mass communion but uncomfortable affairs, jammed and hot, the music distorted, the vibes edgy. It takes a lot of dedication to stand like a parboiled wading bird on a rickety wooden seat through an hour of sound that you have already heard 20 times on your stereo at home, while straining to watch, a quarter of a mile away through the gaps in the jiggling mops of hair, a tiny gyrating mannikin whose face you cannot see but whom you know to be Jagger...
...Although prices of stripped-down minicars cluster around $2,000, the average price of those sold is considerably higher because motorists are selecting fancy options. Roughly 81% of the cars sold today contain power steering; 63% have factory-built air conditioning; 58% come with vinyl tops; and 3.6% have stereo tape players...
...afford much live music, you can always listen to the radio. WBCN is about the best FM Stereo Rock on this coast. BCN is low-key, barely playlisted, and its music is, at times, inspired. Its strongest point is its almost complete reliance on the whim of the disc jockey. WBZ and WEEI both play computerized rock and roll, not particularly progressive, and not too low-key. Both the music and the announcing reminds one of WPLJ-FM in New York...
...average, slightly seedy apartment in Oakland, Calif. The Rolling Stones' new album, Exile on Main St., was playing on the stereo, the shower was running, and out of the steam came a croaky voice singing Tumbling Dice. Then out of the shower, into his underpants, and out into the big bright kitchen came Dick Miller, 23, home after a long day clerking at the art-supplies store. "Three hours till we hear the greatest rock-'n'-roll band in the world," Miller yelled out the window to no one in particular...
...Brezhnev, the Soviet citizen is aware of improving living standards. The average Russian family can buy a wider selection of clothing than ever before, and can eat plentifully, if plainly. Most Soviet workers now have enough surplus funds to save up for a movie camera, a refrigerator and a stereo set. Although Russia's housing shortage is still very acute, the waiting lists for apartments in the vast new residential complexes mushrooming on Moscow's outskirts have grown shorter...