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While the machine may be a new star, the star has often been a machine disguised as a person. On My Living Doll, Julie Newmar was a robot who camouflaged her engineering as sexual equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show...
...robot serves its three private-eye associates as a mobile data bank and uses its sensitive radar to warn them of approaching danger (usually a helicopter...
...Intellivision games, the electronics division of Mattel has run a $201 million deficit in 1983, while laying off 37% of its 1,800-member work force. Activision estimated that it lost $3 million to $5 million in the past three months despite scoring hits with its new Enduro and Robot Tank games. At Bally, the leading manufacturer of arcade video machines, profits...
...longer does a bank failure result in angry customers milling outside locked doors, or widows and orphans being stripped of their life savings. Closings have become so routine that agencies like the FDIC perform them with robot-like precision. Typically, authorities move in after business hours on Friday and freeze accounts. By the following Monday, they have either paid off the depositors or allowed another bank to assume control. But such transitions are not without cost. The FDIC spent $870 million last year, mostly to compensate private financial institutions for taking over bad loans. Moreover, bank shareholders can see their...
...insidious than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic Dr. Slump. There is even a manga temple...