Word: stereos
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...music that accompanies the car exhibit is a soundtrack, a collage of songs, played--the dealership never missing a trick--on a Delco car stereo speaker. "Love Me Tender." "Heartbreak Hotel." You have to love "Heartbreak Hotel," even if the man next to you is being an idiot, and poses next to the car in a mock Elvis stance that's more embarrassing than funny. It's just a great song. The guy thinks he's the life of the party. In the open back seat of the limo is a shirt and flashy fender guitar. Never played. Never worn...
...which is to gall and exasperate the audience with little pin-pricks of domestic jokes and quarrels. The sets are detailed, maddeningly familiar portraits of normal family rooms--a suburban kitchen, with postcards pasted to the fridge door, and a Manhattan living room, with stuffed chairs and a dinky stereo playing a Brandenburg concerto. Feiffer's play, in this fine production, is both funny and chilling: funny because it's written and performed with care and style, chilling because everyone in the audience seems to recognize their parents, their friends and themselves on the stage...
...Tech Hi-Fi Sound Consultant Douglas Corley: "Our sales depend only on how fast they can build them." Some 30 other manufacturers have rushed more than 50 competing models onto the market, ranging from $60 to $300. Some units, like the KLH Solo and Toshiba KT-52, have FM stereo radios, and most accept such accessories as additional headphones, microphones for direct recording and AC adapters. Sony, which devotes an entire Tokyo factory to the units' production, this year expects to double its 1980 U.S. sales of a million of them...
...much to hope that the invention will offset "the box"-the 20-lb. chromed stereo radio that thickens the air of so many American cities with noise pollution. But the mini-stereo makes possible a silent revolution indoors. Denis Ilkovics, a Belgian tourist, bought one in New York for his 13-year-old daughter. "I hope she'll use it instead of those loudspeakers," he sighed...
Getting in the way of traffic is a more pressing worry. Police are braced for what could be an audio-accident season this summer, with stereo-deaf sportsmen crossing the paths of oncoming cars. As for those behind the wheel, many states prohibit driving with both ears blocked, but few enforce such laws. "Motorists al ready listen to car radios that are so loud they can't hear our sirens," says Michigan State Policeman Wayne McKalpain. "If they put on headphones, they'll hamper our ability to respond to emergencies...