Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than 24 hours after Dick Gephardt arrived in New Hampshire, Paul Simon's negative ads were on the air. They were designed to act as a video karate chop to the Iowa victor's momentum. Again, there were simple side-by- side head shots of the candidates followed by a slanted comparison of voting records. Gephardt's tracking polls showed his lead over Simon diminishing to almost zero...
...soundtrack is just ambient sound, whether it be a radio or TV playing in the background or just someone mumbling behind the camera. Frank entirely avoids the obviously glamorous option of playing loud Stones music through the entire film, which would effectively have turned it into a rock video...
Before the lecture, Minter showed a 26-minute video entitled "Killing a Dream." The film focused on the South African government's support of RENAMO, the Mozambican resistance organization which Minter said terrorizes rural Mozambique in order to topple the nation's government. The film included candid footage of Mozambican villagers who had been multilated by RENAMO's armed supporters...
...Laser buffs have a simple answer," says Douglas Pratt, editor of the lively monthly Laser Disc Newsletter and author of The Laser Video Disc Companion (New York Zoetrope; $16.95), which reviews more than half of the approximately 2,000 titles available in America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early...
...lucky charms in his pocket at all times. But he never wrestled with a hurricane on television. Even the glossy Jerry Falwell, with all his equivocal gifts, disdains glossolalia. Robertson, on the other hand, despite his prickliness about being called a television evangelist these days, has been captured on video showing all his Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended the time he prayed on his television show to divert the course of Hurricane Gloria, adding...