Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard as educational frills and extras in the budget, which the board of education insists has already been "cut to the bone." Among the budget items that rankle most: $23,000 for art-instruction supplies, $13,000 for a gymnasium divider net, $3,600 for a color TV and video taping system...
...plainly sincere. He spent more than four of his years as a Vietnamese prisoner in solitary, his feet manacled to the floor for months at a time. Nonetheless, he maintained a chain of command in the P.O.W. camps and endured savage beatings for it. When forced to video-tape a confession, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to send the world a message, "Torture...
...deal was part of the radical transformation currently taking place in the movie business. New technology, including video-tape recorders, video cassettes and cable television, are rapidly being installed in millions of American homes, and movie studios are trying to determine how their wide-screen extravaganzas will fit into the world of the smaller home screen. Moreover, the studios are finding that the vast libraries of old films in their vaults can be valuable bargaining chips in the emerging entertainment game, since the new technologies have an almost insatiable appetite for products to show...
...matter how much promise exists in new entertainment technology, Hollywood still lives for the box-office smash. Big resale prices to television and other video outlets, and the resulting profits, are largely determined by the success of a movie in regular theaters. The industry hopes that Warner Bros.' Superman II, the sequel of the fifth most popular picture ever made, will draw audiences back to theaters this summer. If the Man of Steel succeeds, Hollywood believes that it can prosper with movies that play both on the big screen and on the little tube...
...subjects: Jaclyn Smith, 33, and Candice Bergen, 35. In Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize. Voice lessons and video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl to a Vassaresque whisper. Scenes filmed around the capital included one dealing with Jackie's $42.50-a-week stint in the early '50s as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the now-defunct Washington...