Word: walkmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using the knapsack as a pillow...
...people, as it happens. Books on tape are steadily encroaching on those old-fashioned cloth- and paperbound items that used to be the main purveyors of literature in our culture. Most of the credit -- or blame -- goes to a pair of ubiquitous electronic devices: the Walkman and the car cassette player. Just as they have increased sales of music cassettes, they have made audio-tapes practical: now you can "read" while you're on the rowing machine or making that long drive to the beach...
...first met Dave on my third day on the job. Trudging through the snow on my way back to North House after a long day, I fumbled through the channels on my sports Walkman to find nothing but his soft bass voice...
...those occasions, there is one that I will remember the most. It was Valentine's Day, it was cold and rainy, and I had just received a joke valentine from a friend signed simply "The Crimson." I fumbled with my Walkman, turned it to 106.7, and Dave was there...
...pieces together to know what they were saying (which really depressed me because I was in France and there were people out there including me who believed that I knew enough French to speak and understand it), I did catch a couple of English words like "fast food" and "walkman...