Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single compact disc. Not even a C.D. player. All I own are L.P.'s that I play on my turntable...
...there one brilliant, compact image that captures the era of Gorbachev and the greenhouse effect, of global communications and AIDS, of mass famine and corporate imperialisms, of space exploration and the world's seas awash in plastic? The Age of Leisure and the Age of the Refugee coexist with the Age of Clones and the Age of the Deal. Time is fractured in the contemporaneous. We inhabit not one age but many ages simultaneously, from the Bronze to the Space. Did the Ayatullah Khomeini live in the same millennium as, say, Los Angeles...
MALCOLM MCLAREN AND THE BOOTZILLA ORCHESTRA: WALTZ DARLING (Epic). Berserk and beautiful: classical waltz music funked up for dancing by rock's baddest bad boy. McLaren is like a compact-disc version of Ken Russell -- funny, vulgar and endlessly inventive...
...program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students and former dropouts, most of whom are linked to local hospitals and doctors' offices. The purpose: to teach them health-industry vocational skills. After 1,300 students dropped out of area high schools last year, Orlando launched a school-business compact. In return for a written pledge to stay in school, troubled youths ages 14 to 18 are paired with "mentors" from local firms who offer counseling as well as a promise of a full-time job upon graduation or financial aid for more education. More than 90 students have enrolled...
...ensuring that potential buyers will have a plentiful supply of entertainment software to play on their new machines. After buying CBS Records in 1987, Sony swiftly began converting the vast CBS library of popular albums by such artists as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand to the booming compact-disc format. Along with the wave of CDs from other companies, the CBS discs helped boost sales of Sony CD players from 2.9 million machines in 1987 to an estimated 6.5 million this year. Sony expects its musical gold mine to give the same boost to its new digital audiotape...