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...figured he couldn't lose. A telephone salesman representing a Las Vegas firm called Vita Life told Searles that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later, Searles recalls, "my wife took one look...
...easy to parody the overzealous quest for purity in Government and depict an Administration where top officials file disclosure forms each time they purchase an imported VCR at K mart. But it is also sobering to recall the taint that the "sleaze factor" left on the Reagan Administration and the nation's faith in Government integrity...
...outlast the life of their owner. They retain natural characteristics no taxidermist could ever duplicate. That's why owners bring them to me. I can mold their pets into positions the owners remember from life. One owner wanted his cat lying so he could put it on his VCR, where the cat always lay. He moves the cat around the house throughout the day, just like when it was alive. Another puts out water for her freeze-dried dog. One guy had his Husky freeze-dried in a sitting position so he could put him beside the easy chair...
Laser discs (basically, CDs with movies on them) may have suffered from consumer confusion in the marketplace. But for film aficionados and filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, they are the home- viewing medium of choice. With peerless sound and a better picture than even the best VCR can deliver, laser discs do the fullest justice to their theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into...
Onward, ever onward. The music business means to turn VCR fanatics, who spent $7.5 billion buying and renting tapes in 1987, into music freaks. Two major artists from Columbia Records (owned, of course, by Sony) have become point men in this brand-new marketing assault: Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, who are both releasing new, ambitious feature-length video albums...