Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BIGGEST NAME: Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is 6 ft. 2 in. and 20 letters long, and who flexed his box office in Conan the Destroyer and The Terminator...
SNAPPIEST SALUTE: The box-office success of A Soldier's Story, which once more proved that a broad audience exists for a serious film with black actors...
...river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...children, what did you get for Christmas? And the answer came in a choral blast that has rocked 2,006 moviehouses: Eddie Murphy! The 23-year-old alumnus of Saturday Night Live, whose first feature film (48 HRS.) was released just two years ago, is Hollywood's uncontested box-office champ. Beverly Hills Cop, a defiantly ordinary action picture that Murphy ignites with his urchin charm, is by far the runaway hit of this holiday season. In its first 23 days Cop earned $64.5 million--more than the combined take of its three closest competitors (Dune, City Heat...
...called, describes VCRs that have electronic tuners capable of receiving more than 100 channels directly from a cable-TV system. Buying a cable-capable machine, however, does not mean that the VCR will automatically receive cable programs, only that it may not need an extra cable box or a complicated switching system once cable has been installed. Actually, this feature will eventually become a thing of the past. As more and more basic-cable operators scramble their signal to prevent video piracy, virtually all VCRS will require a decoding box. To clear up consumer confusion, the National Cable Television Association...