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On the big day, I brought my boom-box and mix tape to class.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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On the big day, I brought my boom-box and mix tape to class.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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On the big day, I brought my boom-box and mix tape to class.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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The song blaring out of the boom-box on repeat is the "The Small House of Uncle Thomas" the soundtrack to a Siamese interpretation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel defiantly staged by the King's subjects in Rogers and Hammerstein's classic tale of a British schoolteacher in nineteenth century Siam.
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In this video, breakdancers bust moves that have been around since the age of the boom-box, but the score, somewhere between 'Chariots of Fire' and a Hans Zimmer title sequence, takes the dance to a new, epic level.
B-Boys and Violins: A Classical Breakdance The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In this video, breakdancers bust moves that have been around since the age of the boom-box, but the score, somewhere between 'Chariots of Fire' and a Hans Zimmer title sequence, takes the dance to a new, epic level.
B-Boys and Violins: A Classical Breakdance The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Rad Blaster is the "First MP3 player slash boom-box slash recording device that's a fashion item as much as it is a function item" It also has "speakers, so you can walk around town and share your tunes" and a microphone so you can "spit your rhymes."
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Do: Start taping Rush and Hannity now, this can be easily accomplished with the purchase of blank audio tapes and a regular cassette-player/radio or "boom-box", when they're taken off the air and executed for loving America, you will still have someone telling you what to do.
Will Menaker: The Official Leader Approved Guide to Suburban Survivalism 2009
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I ride off on my own bike and a few minutes later another boom-box biker passes by.
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Working from an idea hatched by super-quirky frontman David Byrne, "Sense" opens with Byrne's solo rendition of "Psycho Killer" (accompanying himself on boom-box) and builds, song by song and player by player, to a roof-raising climax with "Burning Down the House."
John Farr: In Honor Of Woodstock, The Best Rock Documentaries and Concert Films By Farr 2009
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