Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louds. In 1973, millions of viewers did, as a twelve-part, $1.2 million PBS documentary called An American Family recorded seven months in the life of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Loud and their five shaggy children of the California sun. Significant anthropology or indiscriminate voyeurism, the video vérité documentary transformed the unprepared Louds into instant celebrities, paradoxically enlarging and diminishing them at the same time...
...vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., noticed it as a sharp rise in the din outside his office. Traders at the International Monetary Market in Chicago responded to it with arm waving and raucous bids. In financial offices around the world, tensions rose as the news flashed across video screens and was relayed in frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine-year high...
...learn in one week of intense instruction (for a fee of $500) how to teach their infants to swim, to read, to do math, to speak foreign languages and to play the violin at the age of two. You can't make it to Philadelphia? "Better Baby Video," a California-based spinoff, can provide the same lessons in a weeklong course offered primarily in West Coast cities. Some critics believe that a11 this mainly makes babies learn a few skills by rote, but it is difficult to obtain any scientific assessment of the five-year-old institute...
...maximum, on a $1,600 bill to perform open-chest surgery on a Gordon setter. Since the company started in April 1982, it has collected more than $850,000 in premiums from 15,000 policyholders. About 75% of customers have renewed their policies. Among the pets insured are the video dog Lassie and Hugh Hefner's pair of English sheep dogs. Veterinary Pet Insurance so far does not cover Hefner's bunnies...
...response to growing concern over the health effects of video display terminals. Harvard will this week circulate a set of guidelines regarding VDT purchase and use by hundreds of University workers...