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Some Hollywood insiders as well as political critics are worried that foreign owners might change the fundamental nature of American movies and television shows, subtly shifting their tone and content. Those concerns were heightened last week at the press conference Matsushita president Akio Tanii conducted by satellite video hookup after the deal was announced. In answer to an American reporter's hypothetical question about what Tanii would do if Universal wanted to make a Japan-bashing film or one that criticized the late Emperor Hirohito, Tanii responded ambiguously, "Something like that shouldn't emerge. Filmmakers must create films that...
...many ways, senior citizens would seem to be perfect candidates for home computing. They have time on their hands and minds that tend to race ahead of their aging bodies. With a computer and telephone hookup, an elderly user who has trouble getting around can visit a library, buy a security, post a letter or run a small business without ever leaving home. But older Americans have been among the most reluctant computer users, according to industry surveys. While some 20% of all U.S. households have home computers, only 9% of adults age 60 to 69 own them -- a figure...
When Chicago's new public library is completed in 1991, it will include a telecommunications hookup with all 86 branches, as well as a satellite downlink to draw programming from worldwide networks. Atlanta's public-library system operates its own channel on cable television, broadcasting literacy classes and interviews with authors. In Colorado more than 14,000 commuters a year find rides through a computerized information system run by the Pikes Peak Library District. And in Oregon the Salem Public Library lends audiovisual equipment and even personal computers. Welcome to the library of today...
...path. He was once quoted as opposing a constitutional amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes. The Justice Department waited until two days after the presidential election to announce that it was entering the Webster case to seek a reversal...
...Coca- Cola soft drinks was redesigned around a new logo -- a project that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver, the computer in Gothenburg can spot the oversight before the car gets built...