Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days," says Freimann, "the only people who knew anything about radio were kids." Freimann eventually formed his own Electro-Acoustic Products Co., where his chief supplier of loudspeakers was a struggling outfit named Magnavox. After the two companies merged in 1938, Freimann persuaded the loss-troubled Magnavox management to switch from component to consumer production, stick to a quality line, sell at fixed prices through carefully selected franchised dealers. Even today, Magnavox has only 3,500 dealers...
What Diana has done-and nobody thought of doing before-is to make dresses that switch on and off. By using pliable plastic lamps sewn into the clothes in segments and connected to a rechargeable battery pack worn on the hip, just like Batman, she has been able to produce minidresses with throbbing hearts and pulsating belly stars, as well as pants with flashing vertical side seams and horizontal bands that march up and down the legs in luminous sequence. "They're hyperdelic transsensory experiences," says Diana. Potentiometers on the battery pack allow the wearer to produce from...
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John MacKenzie, an 18-year-old college sophomore from Stockton, Calif., won this year's Kodak Senior Teen-Age Movie Award with an evocative, camera-of-the-absurd put-on that showed two leather-jacketed, switch-bladed punks running up and down crumbling ladders, dancing on rooftops, beating up little kids, being chased by two other hoods, and finally escaping to lean wearily, ecstatically, on one another saying, "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" National Student Film Award Winner Eric Camiel, 23, evokes the sympathy most Now People feel for the underdog in his Riff '65, a deadpan portrait...
Urbanely voluble, Flanders does most of the talking, and he can switch-hit a cliche or a platitude with deceptive ease...