Word: disc
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...firm's remarkable ability to create new products that make taking pictures a snap. First there was the boxlike Brownie in 1900. Then after World War II came the Brownie Hawkeye (1949), the Instamatic (1963), the pocket Instamatic (1972) and, earlier this year, the highly successful Kodak Disc camera. Between its introduction in May and year's end, the company expects to sell 8 million of the devices, making it by far the hottest new camera in history...
Kodak officials last week unveiled yet another feat of imaging wizardry: a prototype video display unit that allows Disc photos to be electronically displayed on home television screens. Sony Corp. of Japan is planning to sell an all-electronic camera, the Mavica, that also displays images on TV screens. Kodak's products will probably have the market advantage of lower cost. Sony's Mavica is expected to retail for $650, and a shutterbug will have to spend an additional $220 for a viewing device. On the other hand, industry analysts expect that a complete Kodak package of Disc...
...matches in the competition are refunded like mellow ultimate Frisbee in which roughing the disc-carrier is forbidden...
Jackson drives all of this home--the emotion and the music and the passion--with the devastating "Slow Song." Singing a slow and impassioned plea to a nightclub disc jockey to "play us a slow song," he decries those who bluntly destroy the heart and soul of music with their harsh, indelicate approach. "Am I the only one," he asks...
...fact, Beaver was at the time a student of philosophy at Berkeley, and is now a disc jockey and journeyman actor. Ken Osmond joined the Los Angeles police department in 1970 and sued the distributors of Holmes' films to clear up the confusion. Dow is a writer, sometime actor and the father of a son (it was his TV stand-in who was married to Raquel Welch). Mathers is currently negotiating with a network to update the past in a two-hour TV movie version of Leave It to Beaver, starring the original cast (minus the late Hugh Beaumont...