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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August Co. has installed a $4000 system with a television screen and camera that monitors the back aisles. "I would-be ecstatic if I only had $4000 losses in a year." The store catches one shoplifter per week, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shoplifting Plagues Cambridge Stores | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

...rhythmic clapping and popping of thousands of camera flashbulbs like fireflies throughout the stadium made John Paul seem less a religious figure than a Hollywood celebrity. But his sermon was the exact opposite of rock-concert hedonism. It was a warning against "the frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...videotape recorder (VTR) is the television industry's first really new product for the home consumer since color sets. The compact device can record color or black-and-white television programs, play video cassettes, accept cassettes of prerecorded commercial shows and, with use of an optional camera, produce home movies, all playable on the user's own TV set. The VTR's primary function, taping TV shows off the air, has opened a new kind of Pandora's box. In 1976 two of the biggest movie production companies filed suit, charging Sony Corp., the first firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pandora's Tape | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...behind you. They have their sticks out and they're using them, and they don't care that you're shouting "the whole world is watching." They are more than willing to go after the press people, and before the 15-minute retreat is over, CBS News is one camera poorer...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...performance. It may even have helped it. Performers agree that it generates what Levine calls "a constructive nervousness," forcing them to concentrate harder. Milnes estimates that in a televised performance "the metabolism goes up 10% to 15%. You can't help thinking you're on Candid Camera. " Sometimes it can be a little too candid. Last week, before Cruz-Romo's big arias, viewers could clearly see her rolling her tongue to gather saliva in her mouth ("My God," she said later, "I didn't know I did that"). But, as Domingo points out, that very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met, the Moor and the Eye | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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