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Word: videorausch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...sign outside Cologne's largest TV and video store proclaims that West Germany is im Videorausch (high on video). What Germans are not high on is the leaden quality of their own television programming. This is one reason why an estimated 1 million Germans will buy VCRs this year. Cassettes of U.S. movie hits like Patton and Cabaret, plus soft-and hardcore pornography, have proved so popular that a well-known chain of coffee stores was all set to add a line of cut-price VCRs to its menu of Colombian prime and Brazilian Mocha. It backed off only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: VCRs Go on Fast Forward | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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