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Dunlap's machine, the first dual-deck VCR in the U.S., is venturing where electronics behemoths have feared to tread. Japan's Sharp test-marketed a version in the Middle East several years ago but withdrew the product after movie studios threatened to sue on the grounds that users would make illegal copies of prerecorded movie tapes. Dunlap and his colleagues ran into the same objections to their dual-deck technology in 1984. They were also unable to find any electronics companies willing to manufacture their machines or supply the needed parts. In 1987 Dunlap's company filed...
Matthiessen frames his story in the buffetings of tides and storms. Not for nothing is Watson slaughtered shortly after the passage of Halley's comet and a mighty hurricane. The weather is always restless, "the wild tread of God" often heard and felt. Occasionally the terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...
...only one channel for positive change: a new, more enlightened Emperor who will reform the system from the top down. Such a leader can come forward, of course, only after Deng has died. But even if a Chinese version of Mikhail Gorbachev does take office, he will have to tread carefully. As the students camped out in Tiananmen Square discovered that fateful night last June, any attempt to change China too quickly is an invitation to tragedy...
...A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with success and fame, he ambles in where Broadway and Hollywood angels fear to tread. It is fun to watch him keep his balance...
...reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level), taking fat fees for propounding his doctrine of hope and reward. Carter, who always was a better missionary than a President, now has the stature and the means to tread the globe's troubled pathways relentlessly urging reform and righteousness...