Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appearance by Ebsen as the Tin Man. But few have seen these scenes for decades, except for a couple of archivists at MGM and some film fanatics. Now they are finally available for home viewing -- but not on tape. They can be seen only on the sumptuous laser-disc Criterion edition of The Wizard...
...Laser discs (basically, CDs with movies on them) may have suffered from consumer confusion in the marketplace. But for film aficionados and filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, they are the home- viewing medium of choice. With peerless sound and a better picture than even the best VCR can deliver, laser discs do the fullest justice to their theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into...
...vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is now senior pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. -- WILLIAM ANDERS, Apollo 8 astronaut, is now senior executive vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration...
Some scientists have suggested that the depletion of the ozone layer could be counteracted by a variety of Star Wars-like techniques. They include lofting frozen ozone "bullets" into the upper atmosphere and blasting apart ozone-depleting molecules in the air with huge terrestrial laser beams. But such grandiose schemes would be unreliable and could change weather patterns in unpredictable ways. In the end, it may be safer and cheaper, if inconvenient, to cope with ozone depletion by wearing wide-brimmed hats, sunglasses and sunscreen...
...spirit of caution, the established companies are relying instead on their proven winners. Many are backing away from the high-tech, high-priced offerings of Christmases past, the electronic spaceships, the laser guns, the chatty dolls, stuffed with microprocessors, that weighed roughly as much as the average child. Parents and grandparents could not be more pleased. "Last year I gave my granddaughter a talking doll called Heather that cost $125," says Margaret Simpson, 71. "She was no good whatsoever. My daughter had to take her to the doll hospital for an $85 limbs transplant." The only high- tech...