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Camcording can get expensive, but there is a growing "garage video" movement whose members buy much of their equipment at discount stores. For example, a skateboard makes a fine dolly for videotaping toddlers and tricyclers. Ordinary quartz outdoor lights, perched on two-by-fours, provide good background lighting, while an old slide projector makes an excellent spotlight. Inexpensive security cameras can be used to help shoot scenes requiring two or three angles. For long-shots, a baby monitor makes a perfectly adequate wireless mike...
...nice, tidy Episcopal church, then you know there is a strong ruling elite," he says. "If there is a huge Methodist church, you know there is a large middle class. And if you go to the main square and the streets are deserted, you know there is a discount store somewhere in the area that has sucked the life out of the downtown...
More worrisome for Nintendo are signs that the video-game frenzy the Japanese-owned company stirred up over the past five years may be starting to fizzle. Sales of the old Nintendo system have fallen off sharply (down 46% in the first half of 1991), and discount tags have replaced SOLD OUT signs in toy stores across the U.S. "I played all the games so much, I just got bored with them," says Tomas Romano, 9, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He and his friends now prefer Little League baseball...
...right now is a break from the recession, since auto profits so closely follow the economy's ups and downs. Prospects of that remained cloudy last week. U.S. banks made an encouraging start by cutting their prime rate from 9% to 8 1/2% after the Federal Reserve lowered its discount rate. But while cheaper money should help restore consumer confidence, it will have little direct impact on car loans. That's because the Big Three's finance subsidiaries had already been offering such loans at below-market rates, as low as 5.9%. "The only way to gain sustained increases...
Wild church mice could not drag further clues from this reviewer. Those who care about the answer may want to wait for the movie, which should be at your local plex not long after the paperback edition hits the discount shelves...