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...America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early '80s, which led consumers to the misconception that the technology had gone bust. Pioneer Electronics, which manufactures virtually all the laser players sold in the U.S., soldiered on alone, going into the software business as well, but discs remained mostly the playthings...
...candidate's daily schedules to reporters not by messenger but by facsimile machine, which can transmit a typewritten page over telephone lines in 30 seconds or less. The personal assistants of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt are never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last month prevented Robert Dole from attending a town meeting in Alexandria, Minn., the Kansas Republican called the meeting hall from...
...Foley of Washington. The Democrats maintained that Howard Baker, the White House chief of staff, arrived at the meeting Thursday and under orders from Reagan retracted some concessions the Administration had made earlier. Baker denied that claim: "Anyone who tries to characterize it as the White House pulling the plug is completely and totally wrong." The Administration contended that the Democrats refused to nail down any particulars...
Eight years after her escape from a New Jersey prison, where she was serving a life term in the killing of a state trooper, Black Revolutionary JoAnne Chesimard surfaced in Cuba last week to plug her upcoming book, Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.; $18.95). Chesimard, 40, was once dubbed by police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master...
...also closing in on ubiquity. Janowitz has appeared in magazine advertisements for Amaretto and Rose's Lime Juice. Her face pops up with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines, and she has given the MTV generation its first performance-writer by making videotapes to plug Slaves as well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene...