Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take Ron Frantzvog. A television cameraman who shares a small West Los Angeles apartment with his brother, Ron is away filming a show in Hawaii, and this worries him, not because he misses his girl friend or his brother or his wormholed stereo, but because he misses his 1958 Porsche. What will it do without him, pining away in a garage? He writes his brother Wayne often: "Did you remember to pump the brakes?" (This tests the condition of the master cylinder.) Wayne agrees to show us the Porsche, deep in a carefully padlocked garage. He unties a silk-soft...
...friends." But Debbie plunged $4,000 into a 1958 Triumph 3 she had picked up for $75. "It's got a new engine all done in chrome, new seats and interior, seats are diamond button tucked, the body Mercedes chocolate brown highlighted with walnut lines, multiplex stereo and tape deck inside, roll bar . . ." That is not so unusual as it might seem. Dick Steele, a Rambler dealer in the Valley, sold a man an Ambassador with reclining seats, telephone, removable hardtop-and an engine compartment that was completely carpeted in a lovely gold. Those months before...
...pronounced, Bingham's wife Maureen collapsed sobbing on the courtroom floor. Later British television viewers saw her talking at length with reporters in the Binghams' $30,000 home, surrounded by the sort of luxuries that had put the family $5,000 in debt-elegant red leather furniture, stereo phonograph, color television set. She claimed that she was the guilty party. "I nagged him into becoming a spy," said Maureen, who found it extremely expensive to try keeping up with the navy's social whirl. At the same time, however, she boasted that her husband had taken...
...curious datedness hangs over Playboy. The props never change-the stereo wailing, the fake gun collection framed in place on the wall, the satin sheets on the bed. One poor swinger who failed to keep up with his status symbols had to have the editor explain to him why there are so few convertibles on the market. Girls are still called chicks, and the cartoons are often 1930s vintage-elderly lechers chasing gamboling nymphs around the old yacht. Playboy fiction often features the best names-Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted...
...play's hero, Bentley (Jack Murdock), speaks ad copy. He is the adjunct of his possessions, the stereo set, transistor and white antiseptic machine for nonliving that he calls his "home unit." He adores his wife (Barbara Caruso) though she makes him a voyeur to his own cuckolding. He has unquestioning faith in his friends, though they are parasitic phonies. Perishing in a snowdrift of optimistic clichés, Bentley loses all - home, wife, job, future...