Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...suggesting that society police every nightclub and root out every raunchy record from store shelves. There will always be filth on the fringes of entertainment. The problem arises when filth becomes mainstream, when it is mass-marketed. A few giant corporations, including Disney, Fox, MCA, Paramount, Time Warner, Britain's EMI, West Germany's Bertelsmann and Japan's Sony, produce a huge proportion of our children's entertainment. Many parents feel that these companies should take the lead in setting the standards for everyone...
...they considered proposing warning labels for any song dealing with such topics as drugs, incest, murder and suicide, which would conceivably outlaw depraved works like I Get a Kick Out of You, Die Walkure, Frankie and Johnny and Tosca. The music industry quickly forestalled such legislation by decreeing that record companies will decide which material is controversial and alert consumers with a label that reads PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS...
CYCLE COMPUTERS. Tiny, handlebar-mounted computers coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...
Counterfuls of other video magazines are also sprouting. Inside Country Music, a Nashville-based bimonthly, will begin appearing in stores nationwide in mid-May (cost: $19.95 an issue, $59.95 for a year's subscription). Rock- oriented vidmagazines like Hard 'N' Heavy are doing good business at record stores. Video magazines are being produced on golf, sailing, fishing, hunting, motorcycling and horsemanship. Nintendo freaks can get how-to-win tips in Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes & Strategies. Expatriate Britons can actually catch up on the telly back home with BBC Video World, a biweekly compilation of the best from...
...attempt to recruit people "who look black and think white." Bell, who is black, now concedes that the description was "a bit unfair." But he still sees a "gap between the school's saying 'We're trying as hard as we can for diversity' and the hiring record." That record fully supports Bell's complaint: despite the administration's attempts to increase minority representation, the law-school staff of 60 tenured faculty boasts only three blacks (all men) and five women...