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...investment. Some industries have been virtually wiped out by foreign competition: the share of the U.S. consumer electronics market held by American companies has plunged from almost 100% in 1970 to less than 5% today. When the Japanese started coming up with innovative products like VCRs and hand-held video cameras, U.S. firms decided to sell Tokyo's models rather than try to make their own. In short, U.S. industry no longer has the capacity to produce the quantity, quality or variety of goods that the public demands...
...three companies that have virtually defined American television since the days of Uncle Miltie, Maverick and Playhouse 90 -- may not be dying, but they are sick and fighting for survival. Eating away at their audience is a panoply of new video choices: cable channels, independent stations, videocassette recorders, even an upstart "fourth network." The three networks' combined share of the audience shrank to a low of 70% last season, and the decline shows no signs of leveling off. New technologies like home satellite dishes and fiber-optic cable could eventually pose even greater threats. "We've been outplayed, outsold, outmarketed...
...place anyway; long cafe tables, piled with bring-your-own beer bottles and crumpled napkins, tend to promote sharing. When other Reviewers got sick of sharing (which your friends may also do) I drank the free tea and watched the activity. Scallions getting chopped, crates of cabbage being delivered, video nasties beating the hell out of each other on the Vigilante machine. It's a great place; lots of foreign language, good inexpensive food, an Invigorating--yet not Painful--noise level, and not too long a flight of stairs...
Although it is questionable if one could find John Locke there, the Liberty Book Shop located on Washington Street, exercises its first amendment rights, selling both "adult" books and videos as well as sexual paraphernelia. The well-lit store has the feel of a mom and pop video store. The difference is that instead of "Top Gun" and "Wall Street," this place has visual displays for films like "Hannah Does Her Sisters" and "Amber's Sex Asylum." One table is devoted to homosexual pornographic videos...
Rosenberg says the Zone is disappearing becauseof pressure from the Asian community anddevelopers. The food stores and office buildingsare rapidly driving the pornographic video stores,strip joints, and prostitution rings out of thecity and into the suburbs...