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...Grand Hotel, but life at Vermont's quaint old Stratford Inn is far from routine. For example, here comes the hotel's slow-witted handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) to unveil the latest product from his workshop: a wooden replica of Mount Rushmore featuring the face of Mr. Green Jeans. Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy), the pampered Wasp princess who works at the inn as a maid, goes through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Oh Man and the Oddballs | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...Wylie runs through the difficult program which he will unveil at the International SkateAmerica Competition this week, the fourth-ranked male figure skater in the country moves gracefully around the rink, his quick athletic body becoming a colorful blur against the chilly drabness of the skating club walls...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Skating Through Harvard | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

South African politicians may still be unschooled in diplomacy, but they have made great strides on the public relations front. A year ago, government leaders advertised that State President P.W. Botha would unveil a package of far-reaching reforms at a provincial National Party congress in Durban. When Botha's "manifesto for the future" proved to be largely a manifesto for more of the same, an international outcry ensued. Last week, as Botha returned to Durban to address a full party congress, officials tried a different tack, this one designed to thwart untoward expectations. One administrator warned foreign correspondents, "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Hard Words, Harsh Actions | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...slashing wholesale prices, IBM hopes to enable dealers who have been hurt by industry-wide price cutting to recoup some of their losses. Says Anthony Morris, a major IBM retailer in New York City: "We were beginning to eat our own margins." Moreover, IBM will probably unveil additional measures to compete with the clones. Although the company with its vast resources (1985 sales: $50 billion) depends on PCs for less than 10% of its revenues, IBM does not intend to abandon the market. Industry insiders believe that it is about to market a new version of the PC-AT, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cut-Rate Computers, Get 'Em Here | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...words and transcribing them into printed text. Though its 1,000-word vocabulary was a dazzling breakthrough in the infant field of artificial intelligence, the machine had few practical applications because it was very slow, taking 2 1/2 minutes to print a single word. But Kurzweil is preparing to unveil a vastly improved computer with ears this October. Called the VoiceWriter, it will recognize up to 10,000 words and print them as fast as they are spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Talk? | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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