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Terrence and Marie ("Babe") Duffy never missed an episode of Dallas, featuring their son Patrick as the newly revived character Bobby Ewing. "Usually Terry was working during the program," said Bobby Sutherlin, a close friend. "Babe would tape it so he could see it later." One wall of the Lounge, the Duffys' bar in Boulder, Mont. (pop. 1,500), was adorned with photographs of Patrick, 37, who left the former mining camp after high school to find fame on the top-rated nighttime soap...
...investigation was peeling back layer after layer of evidence in a bid to uncover the full pattern of illegalities that had come to light in the $2.5 trillion U.S. stock market. There was even that ultimate Watergate touch: the disclosure that for weeks, perhaps months, conversations had been secretly tape-recorded in an effort to plumb the depths of the worst insider-trading scandal in U.S. history...
...Exit members hope to be making a name for themselves nationwide. "We cut a demo about two weeks ago to introduce our music to the public," Sparrow said. The demo tape has been distributed to radio stations nationwide and already has sold more than 100 copies...
...videotape is earnestly intent on deflecting criticism of homosexuals for spreading AIDS. In the tape's one emotional scene, the brother of an AIDS victim says, "If I ever hear anyone talking about how gays are to blame for AIDS . . . I swear to God, I'm gonna punch 'em in the head!" New York City is still debating whether to accept the tape. Board of Education President Robert Wagner Jr. has criticized it for not clearly opposing adolescent sex and drug use, but he has not directly objected to its gingerliness about homosexuality and anal...
Potentially the most prolific tape dispenser is the video vending machine, which will accept a charge card for payment and deposit. More than 20 companies are developing devices with names like Le Bijou and the Movie Machine. U.S. Video Vending of Iselin, N.J., has already installed 100 soda- machine-size devices in apartment buildings, supermarkets and malls. One manufacturer predicts that 60,000 video vendors will be in operation...