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...Audio-Visuel France has developed a system that promises much simpler shopping. It is called Le Miroir Magique. The shopper is first draped in black up to her neck, then perched in a chair on a platform facing a special non-silvered mirror designed for rear-projection. By pushing a button, she can then flash slides of a store's collection, each dress in her own size, onto the mirror beneath the reflection of her face, discovering in seconds whether or not the particular color, neckline and shape suits her. A decisive woman could "try on" as many...
...Audio-Visuel France expects to receive an American patent this month, plans to market Magic Mirror in the U.S. soon afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...
...system, the original material would be commercially transferred onto a new type of film. Home viewers would then insert cartridges of the film in a breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...
...when definitive performances can be purchased for the price of a plastic disc, one often wonders what peculiar force continues to attract listeners to a concert given by amateurs. The near-capacity crowds at Sanders during the past two Thursday nights suggest however, that Audio-Lab has yet to monopolize the listener's world. Last night Prof. Harold Schmidt of Stanford conducted the Summer School Chorus and Cantabrigia Orchestra in a program that was as varied in quality as it was in repertoire. Realizing that an entire evening of full chorus and orchestra would be a dubious effort on only...
...These audio-visual flurries are imposed on the play and blow up any chance of dramatic development within scenes. They fragment the play and make it painfully obvious that the dialogue is also fragmented--little blips of exposition that are never again used, meaningless historical name-dropping. And the actual Lincoln speeches and quotes from Scripture that come from the loudspeakers when the play has one of its seizures make Kirstein's rhetoric look sick...