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...villainous traits. It took another century to amplify the efforts of Cooper, whose unacknowledged voice can still be heard in romantic protest literature and films. If his works now seem closer to scenarios than to novels, so be it. They remain the most diverting westerns available without a VCR...
More likely, happiness is going from movie to movie or, better yet, staying home to slip those little dream sandwiches into the VCR. Thomson plays to this explosion in film culture in much the way that Jorge Luis Borges ingratiates bibliophiles by writing fantasies about books. One good unreality deserves another...
...While on the road, Robin prepares broiled chicken and fresh steamed vegetables in the kitchenette complete with a microwave oven. The thick pile carpet and acoustically padded walls are easily cleaned with the central vacuum- cleaning system. After dinner she may watch a prerecorded episode of Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When 6-ft. 4-in. Dan stretches out on the double bed for a night's sleep, Robin, who quit her job in a tax collection office to become one of the nation's 48,600 licensed women drivers, takes the wheel. The old stereotype...
...Cable, while it's a monopoly, is not a monopoly on services," Steel said, citing competition between various specialized entertainment channels, with movie theaters and with VCR systems as well as the newest competitor, sattelite dishes...
Scenes from an obscure cable channel? Or maybe from a new afternoon talk show, Unsolicited Advice from the Rich and Famous? No, these stars are among the first participants in a TV genre still in its infancy: the instructional videocassette. As VCR machines have proliferated, so have how-to cassettes made expressly for the home market. A large chunk of them are exercise and fitness tapes, led by the best-selling Jane Fonda's Workout (which has sold 750,000 worldwide since its 1982 release). But hundreds of other how-to tapes are on the market, covering everything from auto...