Word: kagan
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Nonetheless, many experts believe the new technology will be successful because it will be such a boon for middle-class consumers who have neither the time for banking errands nor the luxury of a personal accountant. Said George Kagan, a Miami lawyer, after seeing a Viewtron demonstration last week: "This intrigues me. I can see in five years looking back and saying, 'How did we do without this?'" If enough consumers agree with Kagan, the table-top teller could become the hottest home appliance since the Cuisinart. -By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Marilyn Alva/Miami and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
What Disney and Playboy offer, notes Paul Kagan, publisher of Pay TV New-letter and a respected analyst of the industry, is "a departure from the essentially movie based programming of HBO. Showtime, Cinemax and The Movie Channel. They are not trying to be all things to all people." As exponents of the technique of "narrowcasting" (aiming at a relatively small and well-defined audience), the two channels add what cable pros call "complementary tiers" to the mix of available programming...
...sure what that best is, and that is anything but certain. Most experts say the need is great. "Not more than one child in ten gets off to as good a start as he could," says Burton White, author of The First Three Years of Life. Harvard's Kagan, on the other hand, urges parents to provide "a nurturant environment" and declares, "It's easy. Oh, it's easy. There's not a lot of witchcraft here...
...what they are capable of becoming as they grow up. Yale Psychology Professor William Kessen, who has been studying infants for more than 30 years, says in admiration of the newborn baby's zestful approach to life, "He's eating up the world." Harvard Psychology Professor Jerome Kagan, another pioneer, offers only one caveat about the new research: "Don't frighten parents! The baby is a friendly computer...
...tale characters are either all good or all bad. In this case, they are both. A gruff woodsman (George Dzundza) narrates the tale with the accent of a Borscht Belt comedian. "I gotta great princess for you," he tells the prince. "A dowry you wouldn't believe." Jeremy Kagan's fluid, floaty direction pays visual homage to the sensuous style of Book Illustrator Kay Nielsen. Like all of Duvall's slightly fractured tales, Sleeping Beauty gives a slightly campy twist to a classic without demeaning...