Word: discs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sony's big problem, however, is that it risks losing its role as a leading-edge producer of electronic equipment. It has fallen behind Time Warner and Toshiba in the race to set the standard for a successor to the videocassette player called the digital video disc, which offers sharply improved picture quality. And some experts are scathing about Sony's plans to develop its own brand of personal computers with chipmaker Intel. Says Bibb: "The profits are going to hell in the PC market...
...Disc-jockey, T.V. commentator, radio talk show host and, of course, Pulitzer Prize winning author Studs Terkel amused and amazed an audience of more than 200 at the ARCO Forum last night...
Harvard took its first lead 4:32 into the second, when Nielsen again created something out of his hustle. Freshman Ethan Oberman took a shot from the point, which Konte stopped. However, the puck lay loose to Konte's right, and Nielsen charged towards it and deposited the disc past Konte to give Harvard the lead...
...first white mayor in 28 years. In San Francisco, Willie Brown, California's flamboyant former state-assembly speaker, faces a Dec. 12 runoff against decidedly unflamboyant incumbent Frank Jordan (who weirdly sought to liven up his image shortly before the election by showering in the nude with two local disc jockeys). In Baltimore and Philadelphia, no surprises: Democratic incumbents Kurt Schmoke and Edward Rendell won easily...
...simultaneously releasing a six-CD set, Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note, featuring his trio's nuanced performances of jazz standards. His "classical" repertoire, moreover, encompasses music from Bach to Bartok; last summer he performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Boston Symphony, and he has just released a disc of suites for keyboard by Handel. Always a difficult composer to pigeonhole--he is scornful of minimalism, which his music sometimes resembles, and calls New Age music, which some profess to hear adumbrated in his solo improvisations, "Jell-O"--the protean Jarrett seems not only more successful but also more...