stereo set

Tasks like making a cheese sandwich, building a stereo set and helping a child with her panda pajamas are shadowed by melancholy and the occasional drunken shouts of Avery Parks, whose marriage is unraveling.

She has used the same stereo set for 12 years, runs no credit card debt, does not own a car and happily gets by with furniture purchased back in the 1980s.

A computer without a program, or "software," is like a $3,000 stereo set without any records or tapes.

His first luxury when he came to power was to order a complete set of Gilbert and Sullivan records and install a stereo set.

Yet their living room is knee-deep in Water Music every night �high-decibel seepage from the Greens' stereo set in 17-G.