Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being an at-home auteur is one's fantasy, then the camera-cum-portable recorder cannot compare with the new generation of color video cameras containing built-in recorders. Dubbed camcorders, these new contraptions are lightweight (between 4 Ibs. and 7 Ibs.) and hand held. Once again, there are Beta and VHS versions. The VHS will record up to 20 minutes of video and sound on a single, tiny cassette. To watch the minimovie, the viewer can plug the camcorder directly into a television set or slip the miniature tape into an adapter that will play it back...
...training out of L.A., without a manager yet," he explained in a dim dressing room, though the comparative worth of gold and silver was plain to see. Just as Hill was saying, "My medal is priceless," that haunting Olympic bugling sounded out by the ring, announcing Junior Lightweight Meldrick Taylor...
...best boxer in this Olympic crop is Pernell Whitaker, who pressed over 200 amateur fights into his 20 years, but is still a lightweight and still a southpaw. Glory could be as hard to find as opponents. Kindly the referee cautioned Far-rain Comeaux's handlers to keep a towel handy for tossing into the ring. They asked if they might just wave it, and he said they could. They did. Then, before Headliner Mark Breland came out, poor Tyrell Biggs, 23, went six well-hooted rounds with a muscle-bound actor named Mike Evans, the Budweiser Light "champion...
...feel the name is appropriate because organized crime is such a lightweight in Southern California," said Gates, who referred to Southern California crime families as "the Mickey Mouse Mafia...
...investigation--dubbed "Operation Lightweight"--began in the spring, was put on hold during the Summer Olympics and resumed immediately afterward, Gates told a news conference...