Word: compacts
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Faster than anyone had predicted, digital compact disks are revolutionizing the classical record industry. From nothing just two years ago, sales grew to 5.2 million disks last year; in recent months, the Polygram complex of classical labels (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and London) took in about as much money in CD sales in the U.S. as it did from LPs and tapes combined. Superior in almost every respect to conventional records, CDs will send the LP the way of the 78 within the next decade, possibly sooner...
There is a phenomenon of public vanishing in America that is poignant and spooky. It is a compact enactment of the American themes of success and failure. Remember Walter Mondale? All spring and summer and fall of 1984, Mondale was a presence in American life, his words, his cadences, his voice and visage and body English all injected electronically into the nation's consciousness. Then November. Poof. Mondale vanished, like the minute explosion of light on the screen when one turns off an old television set after the national anthem--the little death of a star. Mondale reappeared not long...
...odds that posterity will see things his way, Nixon has outlined his version of what happened in his memoir RN (1978); in two books about superpower conflict, The Real War (1980) and Real Peace (1984); and in No More Vietnams, published this month (Arbor House; 237 pages; $14.95). The compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir; 3) to reassert...
...delicately: "I don't think it's going to be politically acceptable to put bombs in orbit." In practice, the X-ray lasers would have to be launched from earth at the first warning of attack in a "pop-up" defense (they are in fact the only laser devices compact enough for such a defense). To get high enough fast enough, they would probably have to be shot from submarines stationed just off Soviet coastlines...
Hyundai (rhymes with Sunday) will offer U.S. buyers a front-wheel-drive subcompact and a rear-wheel-powered compact, both made in its modern factory on an 86-acre site in the port city of Ulsan. This year the plant's production capacity will be increased from 150,000 to 300,000 vehicles a year in anticipation of U.S. sales. Just what the subcompact will look like is known only to Hyundai officials, who have code named it the X car. It will be unveiled in March and is expected to sell for as little as $5,000. That would...