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There was no single pioneer, no moment of signal inspiration. The vidblitz began before anyone knew the planes were flying in formation. Illustrated songs, little three-or four-minute clips, began to rain down on television and clubs in late 1980. Some of them were concert performances, shot and edited with perfunctory flash; others were like surrealistic visual riffs on the song, head comics for beginners, production numbers soaked in blotter acid. A technological catchall, video quickly became a generic name for these detonations of sight and sound, as those little items played on a phonograph were named...
...means of communication available?" Joel has communicated extremely well-his videos are among the genre's most elaborate and effective-but his new commitment to the form, as well as his excellence at it, shows the flak of a born survivor. It is not necessary to be a pioneer, as David Bowie was when he started making videos back in the early '70s. It is only necessary to know that at the moment, and likely for the future, hearing a song will be fine, but only seeing will be believing...
...both bookstores and publishers. An estimated 600 titles are available this year, up from just 120 or so five years ago. Says Jon Beckmann, publisher of Sierra Club Books: "In the 1960s people never bought calendars." Nowadays they may buy several. The California-based Sierra Club was a pioneer in marketing richly illustrated calendars as wall and desk adornments. The organization expects to sell about 400,000 copies of its 1984 engagement book, which has pictures of natural vistas. Price: $7.95. Seeing the promotional value and fund-raising possibilities, other institutions, including the Smithsonian and the New York Public Library...
Barney Clark, courageous medical pioneer...
...restraint sometimes even extends to cases involving children. When it turned out that a previously identified kidnap victim in Chicago, an eleven-year-old girl, had also been raped, the Sun-Times published the girl's photograph with the word "rape" next to it. The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press published the names of parents who had been charged with child sex abuse, identifying their children as among the victims. Says Managing Editor Deborah Howell: "We felt readers had a legitimate interest in knowing if their children had associated with the accused parents...