Word: projectors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually the same whether only two couples or as many as a dozen participate: extra towels are laid out, for there is "a constant traffic into and out of the bathtub and shower" (swingers are fanatics about personal cleanliness); candles or blue lights may be arranged; and sometimes a projector is set up to show stag films. Drinks are poured to ease tension, which is high. Swingers, it turns out, are not really liberated; they act "as if they are at a high school prom where no couple wishes to be the first one on the dance floor." Finally, after...
...classics, but his only acquisition thus far is a dubious item called The Monkey, which he unreels for son Jason. Also militating against the success of the Gould film library is the fact that its founder and chief benefactor becomes easily intimidated by the intricacies of threading the movie projector...
...cartridge unit is a sort of video phonograph that converts any TV set into a home movie projector and screen. The variety of available programs should be almost endless: Olivier's Hamlet, all kinds of other films (including instant home movies), Broadway musicals, or how-to series by Arnold Palmer or Julia Child. Owners will be able to play the cartridges at any hour of the day or night and, if they have the right equipment, to replay a sequence or freeze the action in order to study Palmer's back swing or tend to a squalling baby...
...color television sets the size of transistor radios. Using a hundred times less voltage than conventional sets, tiny battery-powered ceramic TV screens would show purer colors than conventional sets, without generating hazardous X rays. They could also be used as an animated color transparency. Placed in a light projector, they could flash large TV images against a movie screen or even a plain white wall...
...film Viva Max!, a political satire in which contemporary Mexicans recapture the Alamo, caused a stir when American Airlines chose to show it on an L.A.-Washington flight carrying Comedian and Superpatriot George Jessel. After vainly trying to persuade the crew to shut down the projector, Jessel promised to complain to the FAA and the airline president, then closed his eyes during the remainder of the movie...