Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down. Some editors claim that the modern news business resists the seasonal lassitude. But consider the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, which played on Page One a wire-service tale proclaiming that some 8,000 Americans are injured each year by toothpicks. Consider especially the Milwaukee Journal, which gave front-page display to the theft from a clothesline of 21 socks that were drying in the sun. And what of the 22nd? Tune in next August...
...prominent display in many stores this week will be a brand-new Eastman Kodak self-contained camera-video recorder, which uses narrow 8-mm tape. By Christmas the Kodavision unit will be joined by two more of the new generation of so-called camcorders: General Electric's Uni-Cam and a still-to-be-named Polaroid product. RCA has a system all ready to go, but is waiting to see how consumers respond...
...Contemporary City for Three Million People, proposed a massive urban complex built to accommodate the automobile in, around and out of high-rises. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, visitors to the seductive General Motors pavilion rode in moving chairs through a 1,700-ft. display of vast expressways designed to effortlessly handle the projected traffic flow...
...past, reporters prepared copiously for floor assignments. This time, most of them found little need to scan the arcane computerized data, little chance to display erudition. Indeed, the interview choices seemed to be so obvious that on several occasions network crews were lined up three deep alongside such figures as Catania or President Reagan's Campaign Consultant Drew Lewis, turning the usual traffic jam in the aisles into human gridlock. Summed up Wallace: "There were two clear advantages to this assignment. One was that the layers of buffer between reporters and politicians were gone; they were all right there...
...traditions of the Olympic movement. While protesting that these were not "alternative" games, Soviet officials played up the parallels whenever possible, starting with blatantly nationalist ceremonies. On a gray and drizzly afternoon, the opening festivities at the 103,000-seat capacity Lenin Stadium were as much a political display as an athletic one. To the rousing tunes of a huge military band, 8,000 Soviet athletes marched around the oval with the same stiff-legged gait as Soviet troops. There were no marchers from any of the other 29 countries participating in Moscow. A burst of color was provided...