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When Paul Galvin entered the electronics business in 1928, he had a simple vision: mobile electronics. The first product, a car radio, gave the company its name, Motorola. For 70 years, from vacuum tubes to microchips, the firm has pursued that mission. And not without risk. For much of the past decade the company has been on a roller coaster, boosted by cell-phones, slammed by radios, skewered by foreign competition. But last week the firm announced earnings high enough to convince Wall Street that Motorola is back...
...Prohibition created the bootleg-booze industry, Hollywood moralizing gave birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come...
Will such diversions capture the hearts, minds and leisure time of nine-year-old girls? Something's bound to. "Half the people who shop in our children's area have girls at home," notes CompUSA's Groatman. That kind of market power surely abhors a product vacuum...
...local political analyst agreed. There seems to be a vacuum of compelling issues, said Glenn S. Koocher '71, who hosts a local public-television show focusing on Cambridge politics...
...illusionist transforms an opera singer into a ballerina, an Indian, a widdle boy, a Hawaiian war chanter. As a wolf spies Red Hot Riding Hood, his tongue springs out zigzaggy and his eyes pop out in sections like a dozen contact lenses. No director, of cartoons or live action, vacuum-packed his gags as tightly as Avery...