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...SelectaVision is a simpler system that works more like a conventional record player. The viewer slips the disc, including the dust cover, into the front of the machine and then pulls the cover back out before the feature starts. A cartridge with a diamond stylus tracks 27,000 incredibly tiny grooves on the record to reproduce the picture. Unlike the laser system, the RCA device cannot find scenes at random or freeze a frame...
Next fall a third videodisc system, VHD, will be introduced by Japan Victor Co., a subsidiary of the giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., and other firms. Although it uses a diamond stylus, like the RCA system, it will have the random access features and stereo sound capability similar to the laser systems. These machines will be priced somewhere between SelectaVision and the laser systems and sold in the U.S. under the Panasonic, JVC, Quasar and General Electric brand names...
...child, but Onassis insisted on an abortion. It was a turning point. Sometimes the Christina sailed without her. Once, in 1963, Jackie and her sister Lee Radziwill cruised instead. The future could be read in what those ladies made off with: Lee a string of pearls, Jackie a massive diamond and ruby necklace...
...stuck on. The fox is the author. Morrison, whose Song of Solomon (1977) won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, blends elements of racial identity, assimilation and Caribbean folklore with an old-fashioned lady-and-the-truck-driver romance. Can sophisticated Jadine and her black diamond in the rough make it, even after he has a haircut and borrows a Hickey Freeman suit? Or will Ryk, a rich somebody, lure her back to Paris by sending her a sealskin coat she cannot wear in the tropics...
...title shows not only how the neon sign has fared, but also hints at the new raison d'etre of the establishment.) Two or more stock hookers-with-hearts-of-gold wander in, complaining about the hot water and "business." They fare little better than Raiser, particularly Ann Diamond as April, who seems to have been given the role solely for her alarming shock of blond hair. Her arms flailing with almost every line, she demonstrates her remarkable unsuitability throughout, but particularly when confronted with a cigarette--ain't no hooker who smokes like that. Sarah Slusser at least...