Word: betamaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest movie production companies filed suit, charging Sony Corp., the first firm to market VTRs in the U.S., some of its retailers and others, with copyright infringement, interference with the sale of recorded programs to broadcasters and "unjust enrichment." They demanded that Sony stop manufacturing and distributing its Betamax VTR or, alternatively, modify the machine so that it would not record copyrighted material...
Dallas merchants say Christmas sales may climb by 25%. Shoppers are packing malls in suburban Houston to buy stereos, TVs and Betamax recorders. Expensive furs, jewelry, silks and cashmeres are brisk sellers everywhere. Many retailers echo the report of a luggage salesman at Chicago's Marshall Field department store: "Customers are buying better quality. It's the old philosophy of being too poor to buy cheap...
...Betamax a replay of her first triumph unwinds in glorious technicolor. The camera zooms in on pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
...director of Miss California, observes. But the relentless aim of the group is to help Christine acquire what the judges' guide describes as "the necessary beauty and wholesomeness to appeal to the American public." The variables considered include talent, hair, makeup, gowns, poise and walk, and conversation. The Betamax affirms that where talent is concerned, Christine should have the contest pretty well sewed up. Her rendering of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants. But in many ways she is like a whole...
Stereo equipment moved rapidly, as did video-tape recording devices like Sony's Betamax (about $1,000). Trendy boots ($175 and up), gold stickpins for women, $5,400 coyote fur coats and $200 cashmere bathrobes also helped speed the buying avalanche. Says Val Holwerda, a vice president of Bullock's: "Anything soft and romantic sold well...