Word: walkman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their sentences, say yes where we would say no, read their books back to front and take their baths at night. Just as easily, we could say that there is nothing much that need separate us from a race that likes to eat at McDonald's, listens to the Walkman on the train home, watches baseball on TV and takes its honeymoons in Hawaii (some Japanese children, indeed, are surprised to find that there are McDonald's outlets in America too, and that foreigners play besuboru). Recently Japan's most prominent gangsters reportedly complained -- in a p.c. fashion -- that laws...
...leave my room at about 10 a.m. every day. I trudge out of my Cabot room lugging a book bag which weighs about 30 pounds--it contains books and notebooks for that day's classes, the materials I need to study for the next day's classes, my walkman, an umbrella, an extra pair of shoes in case it rains, a stash of quarters for photocopying, some Lifesavers, a carton of apple juice, a list of emergency phone numbers, my favorite stuffed animal and a deck of cards...
...most endangered kids are those who wander around with cassette players blaring music into their skulls for hours. These personal stereos can funnel blasts of 110 decibels or more into the ear. "If you can hear the music from a Walkman someone next to you is wearing, they are damaging their ears," declares Dr. Jerome Goldstein of the American Academy of Otolaryngology. After years of such assaults, notes audiologist Dean Garstecki, head of the hearing- impairment program at Northwestern University, "we've got 21-year-olds walking around with hearing-loss patterns of people 40 years their senior...
...lyrical self-help book. Like Bly, who uses a Grimm brothers' myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...
...Seal's secret: trendy merchandise is constantly turned over, while employees are handed weekly bonuses to help push it out the door. The chain's concept is "multigenerational," which in plain Valleyspeak means that gum- snapping, Walkman-toting ingenues and their miniskirted moms can sport the same fashions, from flowered denim shorts to psychedelic bikinis. "We don't just ask our customers what they want," points out Chilvers. "We spend a tremendous amount of time in the malls, in our competitors' stores. I hang around and watch what they buy, what they...