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TI is so secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Look Ma, I'm Talking | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

It was a hot day in New York, see, in July 1976, and Steve Brill was taking a shower. He was a successful young magazine writer for Clay Felker's New York (remember "The Pathetic Lies of Jimmy Carter"?), and the top non-fiction editor at Simon & Schuster wanted him...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Maybe, just maybe, it is. Jane Wagner, the film's scenarist and director, has long been one of Tomlin's most able comedy writers. At some point, perhaps, she conceived Moment by Moment as an extended stand-up routine or as a screwball romance along the lines of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

"Maybe I'll become the Colonel Sanders of beer," Billy Carter chortled when he launched his foray into the suds business last November. That possibility now seems mercifully remote. Last week the Falls City Brewing Co. 'of Louisville, which produced "Billy's Beer," announced that it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billy's Bust | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Wheeling into Eagle Grove (pop. 4,489) at 9:30 a.m., dozens of thirsty bikers preempted the Alibi Lounge, chugalugging beers and cheering with every glass as if it were the last St. Patrick's Day, later forming a conga line on Main Street. At midmorning, in Washta (pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Iowa Bikeathon | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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