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...President FranÇois Mitterrand last month and the subsequent success of the Socialists in National Assembly contests proved once again what students of Gallic culture have known all along: In France, politics is both passionate and unpredictable. Observes Paris Correspondent William Blaylock: "French politics plops across the ideological platter like a dropped soufflé. Candidates seem to have no shared opinions, no established rules of fair play. Nor do they seem to want any." Correspondent Sandra Burton interviewed government officials and French sociologists to assess the impact of the new administration and was struck by the blas...
...that can transform the home TV from a passive machine capable of receiving broadcast programs into a versatile instrument permitting viewers to watch whatever programs they want, when they want. The latest entry in this market is videodiscs, machines that reproduce recorded programs or movies from a record-like platter onto the screen of any home television set. Next week, RCA Corp. will unleash an avalanche of advertising to launch its version, called Selecta Vision. RCA has spent more than $150 million during the past 15 years to develop Selecta Vision, and it will invest another $20 million more before...
...Magnavision, a joint venture of the Dutch electronics firm Philips and the American entertainment company MCA, and LaserDisc, a product of the Japanese electronics firm Pioneer. Both use playback machines that read pictures and sound from a metallic record via a laser beam that never physically touches the platter. With LaserDisc the viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces, a viewer could jump from a picture...
...think like the people he's attacking. It's much easier to satirize or criticize an institution where the dining hall employees are under strict instructions not to serve you bacon with your waffles at breakfast, because the manager told them the bacon only goes with the eggs (one platter) while the waffles (the other platter), on the other hand, are not supposed to be served with bacon. Cuts down on food waste, they'll tell...
...dressed in a full-length gorilla suit and carried a model of Reagan's head on a silver platter...