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...underneath a car. I couldn't get the front door open, so I bashed a window. I threw my dogs out, then I jumped out." Her husband and friends survived, but her house was badly damaged. Ray Linton, another Monterey Park resident, salvaged little more than a stereo, a couple of cans of honey and some dented pans from his house, which collapsed. For drinking water, some people had to tap their hot tubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Nightmare in Southern California | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...junkie's mind, the fantasies of castration and necrophilia and technology gone amok. The updated Gothicism, hip drugginess and black humor of Naked Lunch established Burroughs' audience, composed mostly of young people. Norman Mailer compared reading Burroughs to "being in a room where three radios, two television sets, stereo hi-fi, a pornographic movie, and two automatic dishwashers are working at once." John Clellon Holmes called Burroughs' work "1984 written by W.C. Fields...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: William Burroughs | 2/1/1980 | See Source »

...consumer electronics business has produced some fierce marketing wars, but none is likely to be quite so cutthroat as the struggle that is starting for control of the videodisc industry. Videodisc players look much like any stereo deck, but, plugged into a TV, they play prerecorded movies, sports events, opera, sitcoms and documentaries. They promise to advance significantly the cause of viewers' lib, giving TV addicts freedom to watch what they want when they want to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Disc Wars | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...other's machine. Just as the 33%-r.p.m. audio record won out over the 45-r.p.m., ultimately one company will dominate the market. While RCA essentially uses a phonograph-like needle to "read" its discs, Magnavox uses an optical laser. Magnavox machines offer more features, such as stereo sound, freeze frame, slow motion and reverse viewing. Partly because of its advanced technology, Magnavox's players are likely to be more expensive: they list for $775, vs. RCA's expected $500 or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Disc Wars | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...sampler of classical LPs to keep the stereo glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds for a Winter Night | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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