Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait. There is a much-maligned high-tech wizard waiting in the wings: the VCR. In 1980, studio revenue from domestic ticket sales and movie videocassettes totaled $1.3 billion (videocasssettes accounted for only 15%). By 1984 the cumulative take was $2.4 billion (33% from cassettes). Last year it rose to $3 billion, and cassette sales were virtually half the total (see chart), despite the "first sale" doctrine, which prohibits studios from earning revenues after cassettes are sold to video outlets. The industry is now pushing hard for a share of rental fees. Nonetheless, in five years, Hollywood has more than...
...backs into the future, some of its brightest minds want it to move forward into the past. The moguls' grandchildren may be watching some genteel drama on a wall-size screen in their living room. Or they may sneak out to catch Romancing the Nile LIV in a high-tech Movierama. Neither answer seems bold enough if this "art form of the 20th century" is to be a vital force in the 21st...
Congress appropriated $10 million in federal funds for a private high-tech firm to build a supercomputer for Cornell's computer center...
...Duke is 16-2 and the second-ranked team in the country. Its only two losses have been to the first-ranked North Carolina and fourth-ranked Georgia Tech...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...