Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European-built Spacelab, a laboratory for ongoing space experiments to be borne aloft by STS-9. To reassure Spacelab's anxious European backers, NASA added a day to the initial schedule for STS-8, thus allowing more time for the crew to check the voice, data and video transmission circuits of TDRS. Though the system delivered an "out of order" message to the President, NASA technicians were at pains to insist that at other times during the week, the performance of the relay satellite, like Challenger itself, was "fantastic." -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center
...Playboy Channel, which airs daily from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., E.S.T., is an expanded video version of Publisher Hugh Hefner's glossy magazine, minus the good writing. Ribald Classics presents softcore, soft-minded dramatizations of often less than classic tales in a visual style somewhat reminiscent of gauzy old Clairol commercials. Playboy on the Scene brings the monthly centerfolds to life, though not intelligent life, in filmed segments showing their phantasmagoric photo sessions (as Miss December dutifully undrapes for the 9th time, she purrs: "I'm a very touchy-feely person"). The two smirky anchors of Sexcetera...
...management team headed by Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Martin Davis, 56, announced a major streamlining program to rid the company of low-profit operations. Among the cast-off candidates: Arlington Park race track near Chicago and Roosevelt Raceway in New York, manufacturer E.W. Bliss, and Sega's video-game-making unit. The moves would save the company about $470 million in tax write offs, but produce a loss of $215 million this year...
Beginning with a video scrapbook, the hour recapitulates the dramatic highlights of An American Family: an icy Pat Loud informing her philandering husband Bill that she wants a divorce, and the eldest son Lance, flamboyantly sashaying out of the closet, bedizened in silk scarves and blue lipstick...
...landmark " as the Cleaver family's two-story white colonial. Just as the homogenized family sitcoms of the '50s became emblems of that "decade, the Loud family's home movies may be the veristic vision of the polarized family of the '70s. So stay tuned, video voyeurs, for the next installment of the Loud saga. Say in ten years, when the prospective grandchildren are old enough to be interviewed. -By Richard Stengel