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...logging approximately 3,000 survey calls each week. Response helps determine how long a video stays on the air, and how frequently it will run. Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, for example, is breaking in with "light rotation" (one or two plays a day). Herbie Hancock's kinetic Rockit and Duran Duran's Union of the Snake rate "heavy rotation," which means four to five plays in 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...Herbie Hancock: Rockit (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme). An infectious synth-jazz riff keeps a group of unlikely robots-all unfinished-dancing as they putter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE TOP 20 VIDEOS | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Once the lights go out, it is still the 19th century as far as children and ghosts are concerned, reason enough for the perdurability of tales about phantoms, poltergeists and demons. A case in point: Esteban and the Ghost, adapted by Sibyl Hancock (Dial; $10.95). The hero, a wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...bullfight aficionado (fan), likes also big-game fishing, hunting, plays tennis regularly to keep his weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips to Cuba (90 miles away)-and fishing. A Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...once again. A play by play recording of the 1968 Yale Game wrapped in quick pack instant wrapping paper made gift giving simple. But once again, war up staged commercialism as pleas for money for Vietnam POWs cropped up among the more standard acts. Music, however, remained introspective. Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters," Joe Walsh's "The smoker you drink, the player you get," and Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" are a sampling of that decade's musical fare...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: Raccoon Coats to Atari Games: A Century's Worth of Shopping | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

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