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...that grandchild came to you and admitted that he had once smoked marijuana while listening to a bootlegged Megadeth tape on a Sony Walkman, and that he had passed the joint on to a multicultural friend of uncertain sexual orientation, and that a spaced-out biker at the same party had cursed all politicians who favor crash-helmet laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Suppose . . . | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...skeptical listener. Over the loud but unremarkable guitar crash, Morrissey offers lyrics that sound as if they're lifted from a Debbie Gibson single: "Give yourself a break before you break down ," he snivels. This from the man who created the "Hairdresser on Fire" and put a Walkman on Joan...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: An Empty Arsenal | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Oscar Wilde Knew About Japan | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonathan R. Funke, | Title: The [Taste] Bud Bowl | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Hear This -- If You Can | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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