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Didn't get that CD player you wanted for Christmas? That's all right. Amble down to the local audio vendor -- the one with all the fancy futuristic stuff -- and check out the digital-audiotape machines. Inquire particularly about the DAT Walkman, a palm-size dynamo that puts compact-disc-quality sound onto a cassette tape. The store should be receiving its first limited shipment this week. The DAT Walkman is guaranteed to cure CD envy. And clean your ears, and your wallet, right...
...decks made by Sony, JVC and others were sold in 1990 -- up from 60,000 in the previous three years combined. "We sold out of the home units," says Arnie Shurofsky of New York City's Grand Central Radio. "And we can't wait to get the Walkman. That's what's going to push DAT into the mass market...
...takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles up a fortress of chips, then watches it disintegrate. The last of it backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third queen. Television crews have filmed almost every hand he has played. Now he's gone. Dewey Tomko, who came in second...
...midnight, self-absorbed women tell each other of the night's events, too tired to analyze and deconstruct their behavior. One woman is falling asleep to her walkman...
Even so, prices will have to drop considerably before surround-sound TV becomes a mass-market phenomenon like the Walkman or the VCR. Unlike those breakthrough products, which instantly transformed electronic life, the new TV systems are likely to be perceived by consumers as a more gradual -- though inevitable -- improvement. Moreover, the Walkman did not require major home remodeling to work its magic. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Mitsubishi demonstrated a 120-in. rear-projection TV set that calls for a 6 1/2-ft. space to be cleared out behind a wall before...