Word: multiplexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office, and Hollywood cloned films in their image. Their favorite genres -- sci-fi fantasies, peekaboo sex farces, gross-out horror movies -- multiplied on the screen, and sequel followed sequel followed sequel. Who needed adults? Those forgotten creatures stayed home with their TV movies and VCRs. For them the local multiplex was a teenagers' tree house bearing the sign GROWNUPS STAY...
...video distributors, a fresh temptation is at hand. Laser videodiscs, compact discs with pictures, have such a clear picture and such a rush of sound that they make even the best-quality videotapes look shoddy. In many cases they are as good as what is onscreen at the local multiplex. Sometimes they are better...
...assuming it was a tongue-in-cheek remark by a man known more as the leading member of the Eli literati than as the leading friend of Eli athletics. Unfortunately, it seemed for three quarters that Giamatti might have a serious point to make, as Yale held the Crimson multiplex to a single touchdown...