Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's problems stemmed from the SX-70. From the moment it was marketed nationally in 1973, sales were respectable for so high-priced a camera (then $180 before discounting) but below expectations. Users complained of dead batteries in fresh film packs and bad pictures-"washouts" from manual flash picture adjustments that were too complicated, poor color reproduction, even loss of such details as eyebrows that failed to appear in fully developed photos. Polaroid's earnings plunged from $66 million in 1970 to $28 million in 1974, and that year the company's lagging fortunes forced...
...Rolling joints. (Note: My sources tell me this is great for developing manual dexterity, but it is only effective if you do it for other people. Apparently, if you do it for yourself, the net physical gain is minimal...
...safe to say that The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...
...MANUAL for the divorcing woman, the diary does provide emotional companionship but fails to tackle the pragmatic problems of divorce. Braudy had a network of friends to drag her out of her depression, she had a talent that merely needed development (she is now editor and writer for Ms. Magazine), and she had no children to hamper her individual development...
...summers at the Edward Albee Foundation at Montauk on Long Island, N.Y. It will not come as a surprise that Pat Hingle imbues his role with the warmest humanity As Monica, Deborah Offner impressively combines girlish fantasy with bride-of-death gravity. Michael Kahn's direction is a manual of professional devotion, and the McCarter has a small gem on its hands...