Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main indulgence is to go off with his small circle of friends to Boston for the symphony, with a stop at Goodspeed's, a rare print-and-book shop in the city. There he purchased the 1850s print of the Merrimack River and Concord that hangs above the stereo in his living room. He is an accomplished mimic, doing a wicked imitation of Meldrim Thomson Jr., the archconservative former Governor who named him attorney general...
...without transferring files or juggling floppies. Ergo president and Brick designer Tom Spalding, 41, says the machine comes in "boring beige" and in a postmodern granite finish, which he likes a lot better. "We're not a traditional vendor," says Spalding, who previously made millions in hot-tub and stereo- equipment ventures. "It's much more fun doing neat, clever designs...
NONE OF THE truly offensive people in America apply for NEA grants anyway. Andrew Dice Clay doesn't need government money; the public is giving him plenty. And if the public shells out millions to hear, "Robin Leach? I fucked him," on the big screen in Dolby stereo, it appears that community standards are pretty...
Elsewhere in Furstenwalde it was much the same: plenty of looking, little buying. "I have 5,000 marks (($3,000)) in my bank account, and I'm thinking about a stereo set," said Dirk Juttner, 21, an unmarried construction worker who stood outside the show window of a newly opened electronics store jammed with Sony TV sets, Toshiba CD players and Grundig stereos. "But I'll shop around for a good price...
...Mario Bros. series of home-video games -- and a cash-register bonanza for the Japanese company that sells them. The new game (approximate cost: $50) will require different hardware: a one-megabit Super Family Computer (approximate cost: $165) to be unveiled in Japan this November. The machine will have stereo sound and the ability to display 32,768 color gradations, up from 52 in the old model. Eager customers should know that the upgraded hardware will not play the old Nintendo cassettes, some 350 million of which have been sold worldwide. A series of new-format cassettes...