Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is what constitutes the true danger of Landau's piece. Take the mistakes and failings of some PL members and supporters and present them in a distorted, incomplete format that plays heavily on an anti-Communist stereo type that is as much a part of us all as racism or male chauvinism, and what you've got is a red baiting smear of an organization that has consistently fought militantly in support of just struggles, even those of groups with which it deeply disagreed (e.g. Chavez Lettuce Boycott, NAC's campaign of last spring against the CFIA...
...Headplay is partially the story of Jerry, a hitchhiker who packs his guitar, leaves his family and girl ("But I thought when somebody sells their stereo and uses the other person's that . . .") and sets out for the Mecca of California. By the time he gets there though, it's over. "The Movement's dead, kid." He hangs around for a while to make sure, but after his guitar gets ripped off and he is beaten up he gets the message and takes the bus home...
...lure the wealthier buyers, Innerspace offers the $2,800 "Pleasure Island." an 8-ft.-square waterbed surrounded by contour pillows, color television, an elaborate stereo set, a bar and directional lighting. Basically, however, the waterbed is simply a vinyl bag filled with water: that, plus a foam-rubber pad and vinyl liner, is available in Los Angeles for as little as $45. As fittings are added, prices rise. Manhattan's Aquarius, a major East Coast manufacturer, sells its king-size bed for $199, including mattress, safety liner and wooden frame. A thermostat and heating element, to ensure comfortable sleeping...
...FINAL INTERVIEW brought into play an uglier side of the stereo-type and its effects. In this particular setting, the director of an American Studies program at a Western school interviewed me for his own pleasure more than as an academic necessity. After the usual jockeying for a topic to discuss, he gradually worked himself into a discussion of the (to him) shameful neglect with which Harvard's American Civilization program is supervised. One could sense the need of this tenured man from a coastal tomato field to assert his own identity by striking out at that oppressive ogre...
According to Joseph L. Healey, deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, the fire resulted from a defective electric cord to a stereo set. The usual one-alarm 11-truck dispatch responded to a call at 12:53 a. m., and quickly putout the flames in the dormitory at 64 Linnaean...