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Word: videodisks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1984-1984
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...Spielberg (E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express), add the opposites-attract love story of every road movie from It Happened One Night to Romancing the Stone, and give it the glaze of cerulean romance. It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized by an alien culture with a gift for sweet-souled comedy and an eye for the bottom line. Which is to say that Starman has not an original thought in its head, but it should touch many a receptive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lover from Another Planet | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...rivals, as are Popular Photography (Ziff) and American Photographer (CBS). Nevertheless, CBS said none of these publications would be dropped. The move to beef up the CBS publishing division follows the company's recent decision to shut down such video ventures as a cultural cable network, a videodisk operation and a direct satellite broadcast operation that suffered estimated aggregate losses of $100 million over three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Selling Off a Magazine Empire: Ziff-Davis | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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