Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hordon said because of a simultaneous Boston charity benefit featuring Steven Wright and other well-known comedians, he expected fewer than 20 people to show for last night's performance. About 90 percent of last night's full-house were Rheinsupporters, Hordon estimated...
...SHOW BUSINESS: A look back at 1939, the greatest year of Hollywood's greatest...
...billion last year, a 53% increase over 1987. "This is a new era in computing," enthuses Data General President Edson de Castro. "It is the opportunity of a corporate lifetime." Last week the hottest, newest workstations went on display at San Francisco's UniForum. Once an obscure trade show, it attracted more than 22,000 computer buffs this year, and they were not disappointed. Some 250 exhibitors, from Apollo to Zenith, put their wares on display. Motorola rolled out a new line of workstations with up to 60 times the power of a PC. Data General may have started...
...financial trading and desktop publishing. Says Mark Tolliver, workstation marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard: "When people see all the whizzy stuff these machines can do, they want to try them out." Most workstations now use a standardized internal operating system known as Unix (which explains why the trade show is called UniForum). The increasing prevalence of Unix in the computer industry makes it easier for workstations made by different manufacturers to communicate with one another and with larger machines...
Robeson doubled his fists, abandoned his studies and entered the concert hall by the stage door. His rich interpretations of spirituals rapidly brought him to London in 1930 as Othello and to Hollywood five years later in Show Boat. But the rewards could never assuage the early injuries...