Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, neither man would suggest that they are good chums. Their down-to-the-wire battle, moreover, must be a welcome spectacle to the man both ache to displace: Ronald Reagan. Last week TV stations started airing Reagan's campaign of feel-good commercials, shrewd video collages of sunrises and teen-age athletes and parades, all designed to convince voters they are better off with Reagan in the White House...
...floor in high dudgeon. What upset the Democrats, as well as Michel, is that the Speaker, who is supposed to represent the House as a whole, had joined in a partisan shouting match. Lost in the scuffle was the laudable fact that O'Neill had improved the video link between Congress and its constituents by introducing a bit of honesty into the broadcasts...
...newest wrinkle in state-sponsored betting is the video lottery. Developed by Bally Manufacturing Corp., the producer of Pac-Man, the games feature terminals that produce winners by predetermined programming and include splashy graphics calculated to appeal to younger lottery players. This summer the devices will appear in Illinois bars and lounges. But in Nebraska, the state legislature last month passed a bill outlawing video lotteries...
...Sherman family in Manhattan no longer huddles reverently in front of an ordinary boob tube that sits in the corner like a Buddha. Instead, the Shermans laze back in their den and let a wave of sight and sound wash over them from a new $16,000 audio-video system that does just about everything but get up and fetch the beer and popcorn. When Advertising Executive Sherman watches a football game on the new set, the clamor of the crowd blares at him from four speakers installed around the room, and larger-than-life players scramble across...
...years ago and turned into the stereo sound system, the TV now comes in high-tech building blocks with vastly improved capabilities. This marks the biggest change to hit TV since color sets began replacing black-and-white ones in the early '60s. Says Lenny Mattioli, a video dealer in Madison, Wis.: "It used to be that a TV was a TV. Not any more. Now it is tied into the whole concept of the family's home entertainment center...