Word: screen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolution, home computers have remained expensive toys ($500 to $2,000) purchased mainly by hobbyists and electronics buffs. Reason: a paucity of programs available to make the investment worthwhile. Now, however, a department store of information called, appropriately enough, The Source is available to anyone with a simple terminal screen and a telephone coupler. Created by William von Meister, 37, chairman of Telecomputing Corp. of America, the new data bank is a pool of information from more than 2,000 programs...
...hour. Once connected, the consumer can call up programs by placing a toll-free call to a computer in Silver Spring, Md., and asking The Source questions-in English. Available since June 5, The Source's home and business services are just a phone call and a terminal screen away for 500 new subscribers...
Were she not an unquestioned star, one would suspect The Main Event of being a vanity production-the sort of thing aging screen queens sometimes get their wealthy admirers to buy for them so that the camera may once again be permitted to adore them. In particular, this star seems to labor under the delusion that it is not so much her face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie...
Officials seized a pound of speed and a slight amount of heroin, as well as a small arsenal of firearms, including some 1,000 rounds of ammunition. They also found a silk-screen device for manufacturing fake driver's licenses and the insignia and star of the California highway patrol, which the Angels could have used to disguise a car so that they appeared to be members of the forces of law and order...
Richard Tuggle, a first-tune screen writer, has based his script on the real-life exploits of Frank Morris, a convict who fled Alcatraz with two buddies in 1962 and was never heard from again...