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Word: videos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days a new sideline may drastically change the store's procrastinatory value: two recently acquired video games. Though in the first week not enough people have noticed their presence to cause a nuisance, Eric anticipates trouble from "creeps hanging out." Square bums have been an ongoing annoyance; about one situation a week warrants calling the police, Higgins says, though he is quick to add that both Harvard and Cambridge cops are "pretty darn good" at preventing incidents...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...John L. Marion, opened the bidding, he stood in front of a back-lit picture of an orbiting Satcom that was no challenge to Turner for delicacy and draftsmanship. But aesthetics were not the point. Up for grabs were leasing rights to seven Satcom transponders. These devices pick up video signals from one point on earth and relay them to other points, enabling their users to distribute cable programs, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Floating High-Rent District | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broken Cookies and Bourgeois Mediocrity | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...Video Art--works of Juan Downey; Boston Film/Video Foundation, 1126 Boylston St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE Nov. 12 - 18 | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...Video central is no longer New The York City, or Studio City, or even beautiful downtown Burbank. It is a place called Melonville, and it is not on the map. It exists only as the fictive setting for NBC's SCTV (for Second City Television), a show that originated in Canada and is the fastest, smartest 90 minutes on any TV channel, anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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