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Nearly all radio disc jockeys are cut from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...
...with record executives singing dirges over the worst slump in many years, MTV is a possible savior. The hoped-for scenario: record companies produce the promos; MTV broadcasts them, providing free advertising for the music; viewers watch a video on MTV, like it and dash out to buy the disc. Maybe next year they'll be buying the cassettes...
...Later Karajan moved toward Furtwangler's ideal of fluidity, and his music making took on a greater spaciousness. In works from Beethoven through Mahler, Karajan knows few peers, and no superiors. In honor of the orchestra's centenary, Deutsche Grammophon in September released a six-volume, 33-disc set of memorable recordings, tracing the Philharmonic from the Nikisch days through Karajan's latest digital recordings...
...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...