Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attended the Wimbledon tennis matches and went to Cuba for Carnaval." Iyer, 31, can focus his attention on something as small as the comma, the subject of his essay in this week's magazine, or as vast as China, which fills a chapter of his just published travel book, Video Night in Kathmandu (Knopf...
Three years later, Iyer took a leave of absence from TIME to explore Asia in greater depth. That trip resulted in Video Night, a series of lively meditations on the blending of Eastern and Western culture overseas. He became a contributor in 1986, and is now spending a year in Kyoto. His second book, he declares, will be an introspective work "about staying in one place; about discovering roots and angling for depths. It will be a travel book about an inner adventure." This summer and fall he intends to spend time in London, Southeast Asia, Seoul (for the Olympics...
...ready for couch potatoes on the move, liberated from their sofas and wandering the streets with flickering devices held before their eyes. Sony, which introduced the Walkman audiocassette player in 1979 and the tiny Watchman TV set in 1982, said last week it will produce the Video Walkman, a videocassette player the size of a small book...
...device uses 8-mm videocassettes, an increasingly popular format a mite bigger than their audio counterparts. The Video Walkman can record programs from its built-in TV receiver or from a home set, then play the tape on its 3- in. color screen. The new product will be released in the U.S. late this year. Expected retail price: about...
...seemingly major, even cataclysmic, events which tugged at the fundamental structure of this country, and yet seemed to come from nowhere and to lead to a similarly indiscernible destination. We became, or perhaps continued to be, a nation of spectators. Like the stockbroker on The Street who watched a video display terminal handle millions of dollars, we passively watched large events pass before our eyes--perhaps commenting, as often as not, forgetting each one for the next piece of information that happened to come...