Word: walkmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band of teen-agers ambled down the avenue toward the pizza parlor in Wrangler jeans, T shirts inscribed with U.S. ARMY and Adidas sneakers. Some exhibited the glazed stare and the jerky arm-and-leg movements that are the telltale signs of a Walkman wearer. Inevitably, a few hard-eyed, Camel-smoking punk rockers slipped into the crowd, their side-cropped hair adorned with spikes on top, their black leather pants punctured by safety pins...
...Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright red dress whose comings and goings are recorded for posterity-or at least the evening news-by the watchful electronic media. Nick-who changes costumes to fit Tom's changing impressions...
...first came into the theater, I remember seeing the Lunts, who had wonderful projection and spoke with crystal clarity. But it still took about five minutes before you made the adjustment to hear them properly. Today the public won't do that. People walk around with those Walkman sets on their ears. We've all become very lazy...
...Charles were beautiful but deserted as we set out, all the real runners were at the Marathon, which pleased Joanne and me. You see, we have become some what of a spectacle along the River paths because we like to yell at each other over the din of our Walkman stereos (she has a tape player which is always blasting the Go Gos, and I have an FM model...
Junior BOB MCCABE is perpetually off in another world because he is attached to his Walkman tape player, his teammates kid him, 22 hours a day; the only two hours without it are practice time. "He'd wear it in games if the coaches would let him," one teammate chuckles...