Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Despite video's dazzling graphics and fabulous dancing, I find my own images and interpretations of the music superior. Once you have seen the video, your own imagination is stunted, and you accept that picture as the song's only visual translation...
...includes more than 80 newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Britain and Australia. Wall Street immediately began to wonder if Murdoch wanted to charge into new businesses by gaining control of all or part of Warner, a troubled conglomerate (1983 revenues: about $3.5 billion) that makes movies, records, video games and computers and owns cable-television systems, Mad magazine and the New York Cosmos soccer team...
...photo industry will change more sharply and more rapidly than ever before in its history." Several developments are behind this trend. With 95% of all U.S. households now owning at least one camera, the home shutterbug market is all but saturated. Cameras, moreover, face increased competition from home computers, video recorders and other entrants in the race for the so-called leisure dollar. As a result, many experts doubt that U.S. camera sales will ever again reach 1981's peak of nearly 46 million units...
...N.Y.S.E.'S worst casualty of 1983 was Cincinnati's Baldwin-United, the piano maker turned insurance giant. After expanding too boldly into financial services, the company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop...
Last year's winner, though, could well be next year's loser. In 1982 Coleco Industries, pushed forward by its successful video-game machine, led the N.Y.S.E., going from 6% to 36%. In 1983 Coleco's stock zoomed further, to 65, but then it ran into delays and glitches with its new Adam computer. The hit of 1982 ended...