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When, early in The Border, Jack Nicholson muses about how, back in California, "I liked feeding those ducks," one's first reaction is: "Feeding them what? Strychnine?" Nicholson's voice, with the silky menace of an FM disc jockey in the eighth circle of hell, has always suggested that nothing in the catalogue of experience is outrageous enough to change his inflection. Even when he goes shambly and manic (Goin' South, The Shining), Nicholson's voice and those tilde eyebrows give the impression that he knows more than his character, more than anyone need know...
...driving to better use, are discovering the pleasures of loud literature: books transcribed on cassette tapes. A widening range of fiction, poetry, history, biography, language courses and self-help texts is now available for the expressway bibliophile with a tape deck. In enlightened circles (and cloverleafs), the numbing AM-FM parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks, hobbyists and workers whose hands and eyes are otherwise engaged, are trying the best nonprescription tranquilizer available: Thoreau's Walden...
After hitting the market in October 1978 as an unassuming, mellow but cool version of punk music, the Police were marketed by A&M side by side with fellow "Catch a new wave"r Joe Jackson. Their first album produced a hit single on FM, "Roxanne". Their second album was a rush job, showing a respectable sense of humor and musical variation. Then, like Blondie, the Police unfortunately broke out of cult status with their third album, obscuring both where they were coming from and where they were going to. Last year's Zenyatta Mondatta was the last...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...
...Tech Hi-Fi Sound Consultant Douglas Corley: "Our sales depend only on how fast they can build them." Some 30 other manufacturers have rushed more than 50 competing models onto the market, ranging from $60 to $300. Some units, like the KLH Solo and Toshiba KT-52, have FM stereo radios, and most accept such accessories as additional headphones, microphones for direct recording and AC adapters. Sony, which devotes an entire Tokyo factory to the units' production, this year expects to double its 1980 U.S. sales of a million of them...