Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lull the senses and, in some cases, deaden the pain; Muzak for the eyes. Video entrepreneurs are selling 60 taped minutes of soothing pictures for folks to turn their televisions into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious look at Video Fish One ($39.95 retail), which is a close...
Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer. Other beguiling wackinesses: a song about a man who makes eating vegetables seem a sexual experience, the vocal travails of a hiccuping, stuttering woman who has "bubbles in her bonnet," and the soprano heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character...
...local district resigned, his highest-ranking subordinate at the palace was transferred, and four other officers face possible disciplinary action. In a way, Fagan could take credit for one thing: his visit presumably tightened security before someone with more sinister motives might attempt to make the same trip. -By Spencer Davidson...
...Spencer Davidson. Reported by Arthur White/London
...presidency last week and his incessant moralizing. "We made this coup d'état to do away with continuismo, "complains one lieutenant. "Now this man is taking us back to the situation that led us to mount the coup in the first place." in the first place." - By Spencer Davidson...