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...these historic titans of technology are planning a reunion that will form the seventh-largest industrial company in the U.S., with annual revenues of $39 billion. The merger will combine two of the most famous names in corporate America, familiar to anyone who has ever bought a GE light bulb or an Elvis Presley hit on RCA records. By acquiring RCA, GE will strengthen its electronics and defense businesses and take over the NBC television and radio networks. Says GE Chairman John Welch, 50, who will head the combined companies: "We will have the technological capabilities, financial resources and global...
...many pre-meds does it take to screw in a light-bulb? One to screw it in and one to kick the chair out from under...
...junk-crammed happenings that were the talk of the New York art world in the early '60s. The more one sees of Schwitters, the more Robert Rauschenberg's and Jasper Johns' work in the '50s seems to owe to him: the stuffed goat, the paint-soaked bed, the light bulb, the pathetic coat hanger were all predicted in Germany 30 years before...
...would tolerate my movies if I kept my grades up. My mom let me off school at least once a week. I would fake being sick on Mondays so I could cut the movies I'd shot over the weekend. I'd put the thermometer up to the light bulb -- young Elliot does the same thing in E.T. -- and call her in and moan and groan. She'd play along and say, "My God, you're burning up. You're staying home today." When I was shooting a war movie and needed our family Jeep for production value, I said...
Think of all the wisdom found after sundown. One of the greatest inventions of all--time--the light bulb--was undoubtedly discovered in the dark. Thomas Alva Edison obviously did not study at Harvard (or Yale for that matter) for he surely would never have ventured to find wisdom in the dark if he had been educated by our Mr. Dexter...