Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into his chauffeured limousine with IFB-initialed license plates. At work in a vast, white marble suite of offices above Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Boesky stands behind his desk and punches buttons on a 300-line telephone console as he studies flickering stock-market figures on a battery of video screens. Almost always clad in a dark three-piece suit, with the vest adorned by a gold watch chain, he continuously slurps coffee and information, the two fuels he seems to crave most...
...always done her overbearing best to be a huge success, Media Diva Grace Jones decided to go for maximum splash when it came time to make the video for her new song, I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You). In the $250,000 video out this week, she gets her lanky legs waxed, dunks herself in a milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into...
...brash beefcake hero and a gorgeous, throaty-voiced heroine (Kelly McGillis), a pop-music sound track and MTV-style visual pyrotechnics. But the truly impressive stars of the film are its sleek, roaring fighter jets. Featured in thrilling aerial sequences, they make modern-day dogfights seem like the ultimate video game...
Many mom-and-pop cassette shops believe they can compete by offering more personal service and refined video titles. Husband-and-Wife Entrepreneurs Brad and Leslie Burnside of Evanston, Ill., who plan this month to open their third Video Adventure store, attract an upscale clientele by stocking foreign titles and films featuring dance and opera. Unless other neighborhood video shops find such niches, they could conceivably go the way of the malt shop and the soda fountain...
...plants with a solution containing luciferin, another substance found in fireflies, which must combine with luciferase, oxygen and adenosine triphosphate, a substance found in all cells, to produce the familiar luminescence. The plant's well-being is unaffected by the glow, which can be seen only with sensitive video equipment, photographic time exposures or eyes that have become accustomed to the dark...