Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every day, all across the country, children under the age of 17 walk into their neighborhood video stores and rent movies that they would not be able to see in a theater. Sometimes the youthful customers are content with somewhat less grisly fare, like the immensely successful Friday the 13th series. The ease with which minors can rent and watch such nightmarish visions has alarmed parent organizations around the country. These groups contend that while sexually provocative movies usually carry at least an R rating, "slasher" films containing explicit violence are often unrated and available to youngsters...
Tennessee and Maryland already require video stores to display M.P.A.A. ratings, while New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts are considering similar laws. The M.P.A.A., however, strongly resists the creation of a separate R-V code. The association contends that it already considers a film's violence in its rating. The M.P.A.A. usually evaluates only those films that are released in theaters, not those that are made exclusively for videocassette. Nevertheless, producers of films shown in theaters can get around the system. If the M.P.A.A. decides that a film deserves an X, the producer can elect to release his film unrated...
...Video...
...like a video player...
...Across the nation, in disciplines ranging from geophysics to medicine to entomology, scientists are discovering that computer images can sometimes lead to a better understanding of nature. Borrowing a leaf from Hollywood's special-effects book (and in some cases hiring Hollywood technicians), they are converting their data into video form. Because the human brain is exquisitely adept at picking up visual cues, scientists have begun benefiting from what Robert Langridge of the University of California at San Francisco calls "computer-aided insights." Says Langridge, who uses 3-D graphics to model biological molecules: "Computer graphics gives us a window...