Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrive. Suddenly the women are flying through the air in a whirlwind of purple and violet. As the tension builds the entire group in unison begins to wriggle, writhe and shake. Then in a mutlisecond switch they are standing stiff as boards. These fast movements continue--appearing like a video set at high speed--until one can not absorb any more. Then the choreography slows down, even as Gerhwin's concerto continues to roll...
General Electric. Jacques Robinson, 37, was named in 1982 to run GE's lackluster video-products division in Portsmouth, Va., and set out to extend it to include a long list of products for home information and entertainment. His door, he said, was open to anyone with helpful ideas. One respondent was Howard R. Stevenson Jr., 48, a technical whiz since his high school days in Michigan. He had spent his entire professional life with GE, most of the time working on radar, but felt stifled. General Electric offered him the chance to move to Portsmouth, and he soon...
...Packard is highly regarded in Silicon Valley for fostering innovation. In 1982 Engineer Charles House was given a medal for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty." He had ignored an order from Founder David Packard to stop working on a type of high-quality video monitor. Despite the rebuke, House pressed ahead and succeeded in developing the monitor, which has been used to track NASA's manned moon landings and also in heart transplants. Although there were early estimates that the market for such large-screen displays would be only 30 units, more than...
...thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like the man who rode the IND with a Burmese python wrapped around his neek. One of those things is kids with sharpened screwdrivers in their jackets asking you for money to play video games. But in Bernhard Goetz, something finally snapped, and he told four Black teenagers that he had five dollars for each of them, and pulled out his gun and shot them...
...them are victims not just of one another but of the climate of violence that prevails below the streets of New York Goetz's victims, in addition, are the products of a system that has left them knowing few other was to make a living than jimmying open video games and mugging other people on the subway...