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Trying to reproduce a cherished past is difficult when so much has changed. Larry's childhood swimming hole long ago was filled with silt from the mines. The movie house is gone too, displaced by cable television and the VCR. The Nelsons have both. Out of fear for their safety, the Nelsons do not allow their kids to explore the woods by themselves, as Larry did, or even walk or ride their bikes too far from home alone. "There was a lot more they was allowed to do back then, like go out in the woods and not be afraid...
...kids what we didn't have," says Mary Louise. "We gave them material things, which maybe in a way wasn't good." Two steady paychecks enable the Gutierrezes to provide their children with middle-class paraphernalia: video games, three television sets, a stereo in John David's room, a VCR in the family den, trendy clothes. Their life-style is far from extravagant, but, as Mary Louise admits, "the children are really not wanting for anything. A family needs two paychecks to make it, to give kids what we didn't have. Maybe that's not good. We had love...
...million videocassette recorders sold in the U.S. last year, not one was built by an American manufacturer. Now a small Arizona company, Go-Video, has launched a battle to change that. Go-Video's design for a dual-deck VCR, which won U.S. patent approval last month, contains two recorders side by side. It would enable users to copy tapes, edit them or tape one program while watching another on cassette...
...Video's machine (price: $700) would be the only such VCR on the market. But the company claims its plan has been thwarted by a conspiracy of Japanese and South Korean electronics giants, which have refused to sell the company VCR parts it needs. Go-Video also blames Hollywood studios, which regard dual- deck machines as tools for pirating movies and which have allegedly pressured foreign VCR-makers to keep them off the market. Go-Video has named dozens of film and electronics companies in a lawsuit that is expected to go to trial next year. The firm hopes...
...English words transplanted in this way are simply handier than their Spanish counterparts. No matter how distasteful the subject, for example, it is still easier to say "income tax" than impuesto sobre la renta. At the same time, many Spanish-speaking immigrants have adopted such terms as VCR, microwave and dishwasher for what they view as largely American phenomena. Still other English words convey a cultural context that is not implicit in the Spanish. A friend who invites you to lonche most likely has in mind the brisk American custom of "doing lunch" rather than the languorous afternoon break traditionally...