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With the long-heralded Polavision system, Polaroid moves into a market whose potential has been limited by all the fuss attending conventional home movies: the wait for an exposed reel to come back from the developer, setting up a projector and screen, threading film, dimming lights, pulling everyone away from the television set long enough to watch, then putting everything away again. When compared with sales in the giant amateur-still-photography market, home movie sales are small change; annual camera sales have declined from about 1 million units in 19-72 to around 650,000 last year. But Land...
Dolly's bus is equipped with a color TV, cassette player, reel-to-reel tape deck, CB radio and ice chest (soft drinks, beer and wine). It has two bathrooms and sleeps eleven. Dolly has her own room. There is a closet for her 20 costumes and four wigs. About the only way the bus looks like a bus is that it has the familiar lighted sign: WATCH STEPS...
...Green proceeded to reel off a ten point scoring binge while holding the hoopsters scoreless for a span of six minutes. Edmonds racked up 17 of his 26 points in the half while shooting a mercrucial ten of 12 from the field...
...into the gleaming green Austrian countryside. With his bloodhound Toby on the scent of Moriarty, he rushes into Freud's house where the doctor is already expecting him. The detective casts a comprehensive glance over the interior of Freud's study and, knowing nothing about Freud, is able to reel off all the particulars of the doctor's life. Holmes's display of his astounding deductive power is the tour de force, but the entire sequence is wonderful, replete with a variety of connotations that Ross conveys forcefully. He demonstrates a gift for focusing in on a situation and subject...
...wondered, the same pasteurized number who had never been involved with anything seamier than hatching tadpoles in Richter's biology lab? Who had never shown more knee than the Brobdingnagianized safety-pin on her scotch-kilts would allow? Who had never pressed more flesh than when doing the Virginia Reel at Lucy Karambelas's Holy Communion Ball...