<B><I>Sound Bites: 50 Years of Hi-Fi News</I></B><BR>By Ken Kessler and Steve Harris. London, IPC Media, 2005; paperback, 224 pages, 8.25" by 5.75", indexed. $29.95. Available in the US from Music Direct, <A HREF="http://www.musicdirect.com">www.musicdirect.com</A>, (800) 449-8333.
Andy Regan, NHT's senior vice-president of sales and marketing, could barely contain his glee. "I'm happy—no, I'm proud—no, I'm happy <I>and</I> proud to announce that Mary Cardas is NHT's North American sales manager."
On August 21, Directed Electronics, Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Polk Audio for $136 million in cash, with the deal to close in Q3 of 2006. Current Polk management will join Directed, and company founder Matthew Polk and Polk president Jim Herd will sit on Directed's home audio advisory board. File this one under the <I>you can't make this stuff up</I> department: Sandy Gross, founder of Directed's <I>other</I> loudspeaker company, Definitive Technology, already sits on the board, which makes Polk's presence there a homecoming of sorts, since Gross was a founding partner at Polk.
Secrets of the orgasm: "As orgasm lasts much longer in women than in men, it is easier to study using PET—male ejaculation is over so quickly it is hard to get a reliable reading."
Well, hydrophobic at any rate. Amazing stuff.
You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin'<BR>
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin'<BR>
Way down inside honey, you need it<BR>
I'm gonna give you my love<BR>
I"m gonna give you my love<BR>
Whoa!
"Put down that mouse and go upstairs and pour some kibble into bowls. Do <I>not</I> stop to watch TV. Do it now!"
I love Bob Dylan: the man, the music, the whole enchilada. I even like the endless tour, (currently playing triple A ballparks), which he seems determined to continue on until, to use that famous line from <I>Midnight Cowboy</I>, he "dies on the stage."
I've been working on the Buyer's Guide all day long. It's a drag. Zzz. If I was Elizabeth (we're now calling her "Lizzzie," by the way), I might let my hair loose and kick something.
Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper
time,<BR>
You get tea when it's raining, tea when it's snowing.<BR>
Tea when the weather's fine,<BR>
You get tea as a mid-day stimulant<BR>
You get tea with your afternoon tea<BR>
For any old ailment or disease<BR>
For Christ sake have a cuppa tea.