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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SelectaVision (SV) is designed to convert any standard TV set into a home movie projector and screen. When perfected, the SV converter will be able to play movies, operas, lessons-or even deliver an audio-visual TV magazine. RCA hopes to begin marketing the first SV adapters in 1972 for a retail price of "under $400." Six-inch cartridges, providing a half-hour of color programming, would initially cost about $10 apiece but could be rented for far less...
...pictures visually crowd the spectator, jostle and shout at him. All the vernacular of commercialism-billboards, neon signs, girlie magazines, comic books-provides the imagery. By using such familiar props, the Pop artists are commenting on the new urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization in which the old-fashioned nature celebrated by old-fashioned artists has become merely a fleeting view from the window of a car, train, plane or apartment house. Thus most Pop works contain a tacit indictment of a society that allows life itself to be rolled...
...more than $200,000-the highest figure received by any rookie since the A.F.L. and N.F.L. merged in 1966. Before he had played a minute of pro football, O.J.'s fame had won him a multiplicity of handsome off-the-field contracts, including a television debut in CBS-TV's Medical Center...
...Real Thing"-a none-too-subtle implication that Pepsi, Royal Crown and other competitors are imitators. The slogan will be sung on radio spots by Soul Hero James Brown and the Fifth Dimension, among others. Coke's ad agency, McCann Erickson, has put together some highly imaginative TV commercials featuring still photos of "real life" in the U.S.-Coney Island, farms and hippies...
...Wexler in the kinetic Medium Cool) either put his techniques to better dramatic use or (like Agnes Varda in the festival's ludicrous Lions Love) sink beneath the weight of aimless stylistic decoration. Le Go/ Savoir features Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto sitting around a TV studio engaging in a lot of Mickey Mouse debate about linguistics and mouthing doses of Godard's peculiar politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator). It may all be dreary...