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...over until the fat lady sings. In the trial of John De Lorean for conspiracy to distribute co caine, one courtroom observer noted last week, "It all comes down to the fat man." The fat man is James Timothy Hoffman, the Government informant who helped orchestrate the video taped hotel-room negotiations in October 1982 that are key to the Government's charges against De Lorean. Defense Lawyer Howard Weitzman, having rattled a previous Government witness, predicted confidently, "I'm going to chop Hoffman up into little pieces...
...press the button, we do the rest." That marvelously simple slogan helped sell millions of Eastman Kodak cameras starting in 1888. Today, however, the owner of a new video cassette recorder or some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they...
...after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered House cameras to pan the empty chamber during Republicans' postsession speeches, which were staged primarily for media pickup. In retaliation, G.O.P. members assembled video clips of O'Neill's fast gaveling on the podium, but decided that using them in ads would violate the House rule against employing shots of the chamber for partisan purposes...
Beginning in 1979 French F and French G students have written and filmed video programs imitating television's "Eyewitness News," shows which Senior Preceptor Anne Slack says "have to be humorous and far-fetched, or else we'd get terribly bored...
...talks to monitors, not people," says Tom Shales, the television critic for the Washington Post Koppel likes "Nightline"'s style, which places him in Washington or New York, while his far-flung guests appear on large video screens before him. "I'm insulated," Koppel says. "I'm a queen bee connected electronically to everyone else...