Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...M.P.A.A. signed a truce with Go-Video in 1988 after the company agreed to equip its VCRs with an electronic device that can detect a special signal on a movie tape and prevent the consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in the suit, accepting $2 million. One of the companies, Samsung, agreed to manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed...
...before, Bradbury is at his best when he grants real people and actual events the quality of hallucinations. After all, who needs special effects when he can recall Celluloid City at a time when a young writer could get "mulched in among the ravening crowd, waving pads and pens, rushing about at premiere nights under the klieg lights or pursuing Marlene Dietrich into her hairdresser's or running after Cary Grant at the Friday-night Legion Stadium boxing matches, waiting outside restaurants for Jean Harlow to have one more three-hour lunch or Claudette Colbert to come laughing...
...minute videotape titled Campus Rape, featuring L.A. Law stars Susan Dey and Corbin Bernsen. But even more stringent measures are needed. Among the suggestions: providing tough and swift discipline for violence on or off the field, shifting the emphasis in sports from winning to improving skills, and abolishing special residences for athletes...
There was a certain exhilaration in the scurry and posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...