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...than laser systems. RCA will immediately offer 100 programs that range from the movie Rocky to demonstrations on baby care narrated by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Finally, SelectaVision will be sold in 5,000 stores under the RCA label, and a compatible system is being marketed by Zenith, Sears, Radio Shack and Hitachi under their own brand names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three's a Crowd in Videodiscs | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...largest telecommunications and electronics firms. Shortly thereafter Matsushita is expected to start selling a handheld computer under its brand names Quasar and Panasonic. An informal poll of American computer executives revealed that they expect the Japanese to capture a third of the market by 1985. Says Radio Shack Vice President Jon Shirley: "The Japanese are bound to be competitive, and I worry about the Japanese much more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Computer Shootout | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...home: one in the den for financial use, one in the living room for education and entertainment, and one in the kitchen for information. The current Shootout in the industry will determine whether brand names like Panasonic and IBM will soon become as common on small computers as Radio Shack and Apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Computer Shootout | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...much useless death and too much useless life; Ray--who in his third decade is divorced and remarried to a woman who is perfect, except he hates her, except he loves another woman named Sister, except she is murdered on the verge of rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful, who needs to make love twice a day, who fantasizes about naked women in high-heeled shoes, who delivers papers on the effects of Valium but can think of little but the erotic...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...grandchildren one-eighth Black. And, "the minister continues with a beatific smile, "why after that they'll hardly be Black at all." Blacksmith smiles. He eats his dinner and defers pleasantly to the minister. That night he goes out and gets drunk in one of the Aborigine shack towns. Somehow one senses he knows the absurdity of the game...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Gradual Terror | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

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