Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost everything, from television sets to dinnerware to cameras and video games, Belgian waffle makers, foot massagers, pots, pans, cutlery and apparel of all kinds. So far at least, the drumfire of discounting is having the desired impact of making at least some stores busy. But much of what is happening so far this season is flash without great substance, chiefly because of the sales. Says Michael Evans, a private economist in Washington: "Consumers are buying more, but they're spending less...
...Finally Meets His Match Feverish competition takes its toll on video-game stocks...
Over the past several years, almost no business has grown faster than video games, but last week stocks of most of the industry's highflying participants came crashing down with a thud. Warner Communications, owner of Atari, the king of video games, unexpectedly forecast a slump in fourth-quarter earnings. The news reverberated through Wall Street. Analysts began recalculating profit estimates of the best-known games manufacturers, trying to divine whether the Atari setback had more cosmic implications. By week's end no one was quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game...
...sign outside Cologne's largest TV and video store proclaims that West Germany is im Videorausch (high on video). What Germans are not high on is the leaden quality of their own television programming. This is one reason why an estimated 1 million Germans will buy VCRs this year. Cassettes of U.S. movie hits like Patton and Cabaret, plus soft-and hardcore pornography, have proved so popular that a well-known chain of coffee stores was all set to add a line of cut-price VCRs to its menu of Colombian prime and Brazilian Mocha. It backed off only...
...China steamy video cassettes from the black market are a very hot item. What Americans term blue movies, the Chinese call yellow, but by any name, erotic films make party officials see red, as does anything that smacks of a "decadent" bourgeois Western lifestyle. All VCRs must be registered with local officials, and video cassettes must be approved as healthy for mind and body...