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There is some evidence in the numbers; there is more in the numbing sensation that too many recent movies impose on both mind and body. Back in the 1930s, when a double feature could sprint through the sprockets in 2½ hours, Columbia Pictures Mogul Harry Cohn announced that "I...
Michael Jackson. David Byrne and Talking Heads. Billy Joel. David Bowie. All of them, and dozens more, reeling and rocking across those eleven screens in a serenade of sensory overload. The place is packed. "We haven't played a record since last June," says the Snuggery's John...
On the underside of the bottom line is the music, and for those who do not like to study the numbers, there is Duran Duran, an affable, uninspired British band currently aglow with success. Says Norman Samnick, senior vice president of Warner Communications, which is MTV'S proud parent...
The new competition, plus new technology that allows more information to be carried more efficiently, will lead to a bountiful array of new uses for telephones and telephone lines (see box). Says James Martin, author of The Wired Society: "Deregulation of the U.S. telecommunications industry will stimulate our imaginations. It...
AT&T's quasi-monopoly, however, was always an uncomfortable arrangement. The company wanted to get into related fields like computers when they began developing; other firms were eager to enter the phone business; and the Government was worried by the size and power of the telephone giant. In...