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...else shown on television, cost from $700 to $1,500. They were introduced in 1975 but only recently have begun to catch on. Some 2 million of them have now been sold, and sales last year jumped by 69%. Another 1.5 million are expected to be sold this year. Six-hour blank videotape cassettes, which can be used over and over again, cost only about $20, although tapes of recent movies are about $70. Says Wall Street Analyst Lee Isgur of Paine, Webber: "Probably 98% of the people who are exposed to videodisc and a videotape recorder for the first...
James Andrews, 19, the son of a Maine logger, taught swimming at the lake near his home in tiny West Paris for eight hours a day last summer, then put in a six-hour shift at a local restaurant. All that work was to help in what he calls his greatest achievement: being the first member of his family to go to college. Industrious and frugal, Andrews was impressed by Reagan's attack on federal profligacy and voted for him last fall. Now, however, Reagan has threatened Andrews' dream by proposing to slash $800 million from the student...
...favorite play." Wedekind's Lulu plays, Earth Spirit and Pandors's Box-a single epic of the rise and fall of a creature of sex-present directors with a simple problem of logistics: in Breuer's words, "how to put the two plays together without making it a six-hour evening and without losing the extravagance...
Soviet propaganda both sentimentalizes and glorifies industrial workers as the backbone of the revolution. Like the legendary miner Alexei Stakhanov, who dug an unprecedented 102 tons of coal in one six-hour shift, workers are constantly praised for scaling greater heights of industrial productivity, led on by the guiding spirit of Communist Party leadership...
...Passion zahlt's" (The Passion will pay for it), people like to say in Oberammergau. And, indeed, the famous Oberammergau Passion Play, first performed in the picture-postcard Bavarian hamlet back in 1634, has kept the local economy humming for much of the 20th century. It is a six-hour production, put on for a four-month run every ten years with a cast of 800. A quarter of the town (pop. 4,800) takes part, working as stagehands, orchestra members, singing away in the huge chorus, or milling about as Roman soldiers or members of Jewish crowds. Many...