Word: basics
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...translations. Some of the restaurant staff at Manhattan's Sheraton Centre hotel, aided by a tutor, have learned to utter in Japanese such phrases as "Do you want your eggs fried or scrambled?" and "Be careful -- the plate ; is hot." An Italian speaker has begun teaching personnel a few basic sentences in that language as well. In North Hollywood 36 Universal Studios tour guides translate into German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish the behind-the-scenes stories of the making of such films as King Kong, Psycho and Jaws (to the French speaking, Les Dents...
...home-shopping shows and other filler fare. But original programming -- often more adventurous than that of the three networks -- is occupying a growing portion of the cable schedule. Pay services like HBO and Showtime have for years produced made-for-cable movies, comedy concerts and other original fare. Now basic cable services are getting into the act as well. The USA Network, once filled largely with creaky reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows aimed mostly at women, will turn out 2,000 hours of original programming this year...
DESCRIPTION: Share of total television viewing held by basic cable television and pay cable channels, October 1983-April 1984 and October 1987- April 1988; advertising revenues of cable industry, 1980-1987, estimate for 1988; cable penetration into total United States television household market at several intervals, 1980-1988; color illustration of man in chair watching television...
...Yashica that are making their debuts in U.S. camera stores this month. Not only are they packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...
...East bloc as a technological wasteland, it may be because Communist economies are extraordinarily uneven. "There are peaks of genuine achievement and troughs of appalling backwardness," observes Julian Cooper, a lecturer in Soviet studies at England's University of Birmingham. "The Soviets are often quite good at basic research. The problem is getting that technology into production...