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Word: videos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laugh. Already, there is a Video Baby. Perhaps next: video girlfriends and boyfriends. Imagine, the "rich experience . . . without the mess and inconvenience of the real thing." Video Date, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...that you've had your frozen diet gourmet TV dinner and played checkers with the computer, what other experience is left to simulate? Would you believe a video dog? A video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...video hound, a furry mutt, fetches video bones and "responds" to a few commands (if given in a predetermined order). The felines frolic with balls of string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...There's no responsibility," says Stephen Bruce, whose New York City boutique Serendipity 3 sells the tapes. "When you're finished you can just go right back to your work." Robert Muller of Jackson, Miss., bought his wife Julie a video dog for Christmas and enjoyed showing it off to relatives. "We got to say, 'Look, we just got our video dog, and it's already housebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...company won't release figures, but it claims the tapes are selling well, mostly through catalogs. Meanwhile, pet shop owners profess unconcern. Says one Manhattan doggie vendor: "The next thing you know they'll come out with video husbands and wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Please Turn Off the Dog | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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