1984 television commercial - Setting

The heroine wears orange shorts, red running shoes, a white tank top with a Picasso-style picture of Apple's Macintosh computer, and a white sweat band on her left wrist and a red one on her right. She is carrying a large sledgehammer and running quickly through a dystopian, industrial scene chased by four security guards. The guards wear black, paramilitary uniforms and helmets with visors covering their faces. They are armed with large night sticks. She is running towards a large hall filled with people with shaved heads, sitting on benches facing a large video screen. All the audience members appea ...

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1984 television commercial, 1984 television commercial - Creation, 1984 television commercial - Source material, 1984 television commercial - Setting, 1984 television commercial - Dialogue, 1984 television commercial - Influence

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Mermaids are one of the most famous creatures of popular culture, and are depicted regularly in literature and film. This is likely due to the influence of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Little Mermaid (1836), which has been translated into many languages and adapted into various mediums. Andersen's portrayal has arguably become the standard, and has influenced most modern Western depictions ...

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Mermaid, Mermaid - The Truth behind The Mermaid Myth?, Mermaid - Legend and myth, Mermaid - Fiction, Mermaid - Sirenomelia, Mermaid - Hoaxes, Mermaid - Heraldry

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Over the next few years they achieved their greatest commercial success and continued to demonstrate their versatility. In 1980 the medium tempo dance single, "He's So Shy", reached number three on the charts, and the following year a slow, sultry, country and western flavoured song "Slow Hand" reached number two. "American Music" and "Should I Do It" were 1950s pop, while "I'm So Excited" was a frenetic contemporary dance track. All were significant hits. With the advent of MTV the sisters were able to exploit their visual style and ...

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Pointer Sisters, Pointer Sisters - Early Days, Pointer Sisters - First success as recording artists, Pointer Sisters - The quartet becomes a trio, Pointer Sisters - The height of their success, Pointer Sisters - Albums, Pointer Sisters - Singles

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1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time. January 10 - The United States and the Va ...

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From the beginning, the mascot for the Lucky Charms has been a leprechaun who can change plain white marshmallows into mystical shapes. When he was introduced in 1964, this character was known as "L.C. Leprechaun", but his name was eventually changed to Lucky. In addition to appearing on the Lucky Charms cereal box, Lucky also stars in each animated Lucky Charms commercial. In these advertisements (long a staple of American children's television), Lucky is usually chased by several children who want his cereal, a fact which prompts him to ut ...

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Lucky Charms, Lucky Charms - Marshmallows, Lucky Charms - Lucky the Leprechaun, Lucky Charms - Controversy, Lucky Charms - Taglines

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During the original 1963–1989 run, each of the weekly episodes formed part of a contained story (or "serial") consisting of several parts — usually either four to six in earlier years and three to four in later years. Three notable exceptions were the epic The Daleks' Master Plan, which aired in 12 episodes (plus a one-episode teaser entitled Mission to the Unknown, featuring none of the regular cast); the 10-episode serial The War Games; and The Trial of a Time Lord, which ran for 14 episodes (containing four stories often referred to by individual titles, and connected by ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes

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A QuickTime file (*.mov) functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which store a particular type of data, such as audio, video, effects, or text (for subtitles, for example). Each track in turn contains track media, either the digitally encoded media stream (using a specific codec such as Cinepak, Sorenson codec, MP3, JPEG, DivX, or PNG) or a data reference to the media stored in another file or elsewhere on a network. It also has an "edit l ...

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QuickTime, QuickTime - Overview, QuickTime - History, QuickTime - QuickTime 1.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 2.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 3.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 4.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 5.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 6.x, QuickTime - QuickTime 7.x, QuickTime - QuickTime file format, QuickTime - QuickTime and MPEG-4, QuickTime - QuickTime players, QuickTime - QuickTime Pro, QuickTime - QuickTime development

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Asia Television Limited (ATV) (亞洲電視有限公司; pinyin: Yàzhōu Diànshì Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is the first television station in Hong Kong, founded on May 29, 1957. It was at first known as Rediffusion Television, and renamed as Asia Television Limited in 1982. ATV is one of the two free-to-air broadcasters in Hong Kong. It operates two channels: the 24-hour Home channel, which broadcasts in Cantonese; and 22-hour World channel, which broadcasts primarily in English. Throughout the y ...

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• Asia Television Limited - The establishment of ATV
• Asia Television Limited - Location
• Asia Television Limited - Programmes
• Asia Television Limited - Channel Rebrand
• Asia Television Limited - Programmes from ATV Home
• Asia Television Limited - Programmes from ATV World
• Asia Television Limited - ATV News
• Asia Television Limited - ATV Training Institute
• Asia Television Limited - Partnership
• Asia Television Limited - Licence
• Asia Television Limited - Major Competitor
• Asia Television Limited - Criticism

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ITV - Former ITV contractors. Associated British Corporation (ABC Television): North and Midlands weekend franchise (1956–1968) Associated-Rediffusion: London weekday franchise (1955–1968) Associated TeleVision/ATV Network: Midlands weekday franchise and London weekend franchise (1956–1968); Midlands (7 day) (1968–1981) Southern Television: South and South East England franchise (1958–1981) Thames Television: London weekday franchise (1968–1992) TSW S ...

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ITV, ITV - History, ITV - The start, ITV - 1968 franchise round, ITV - 1982 franchise round, ITV - 1993 franchise round, ITV - Programmes, ITV - ITV companies: past and present, ITV - Former ITV contractors, ITV - Current ITV franchise holders

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Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1939 he lied about his age in order to get his first newspaper job on the Glendale Star. There was a temporary hiatus to his writing career as he served in the U.S. Navy as a photographer during World War II. He married Flora Parkinson in 1941, but later divorced her in 1945 after fathering a daughter. After the war he attended the University of Washington, where he met Beverly Ann Stuart at a creative wr ...

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Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert - Biography, Frank Herbert - Continuation of the series, Frank Herbert - Ideas and themes, Frank Herbert - Status and impact in science fiction, Frank Herbert - Controversies, Frank Herbert - Film adaptations, Frank Herbert - Bibliography, Frank Herbert - Fiction, Frank Herbert - Nonfiction, Frank Herbert - Other publications, Frank Herbert - Limited bibliography by universe, Frank Herbert - Books about Frank Herbert and Dune

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After the breakup of The Beatles on April 10, 1970, Starr released two albums before the end of that year. Sentimental Journey featured Ringo's renditions of many pre-rock standards and included the production talents of Quincy Jones, George Martin and Paul McCartney, among others. His next album, Beaucoups of Blues, put Ringo in a country context, and included legendary Nashville session musician Pete Drake. In 1971, he scored hit singles with "It Don't Come Easy" and then "Back Off Boogaloo" the following year. The latter has ...

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Ringo Starr, Ringo Starr - Early years, Ringo Starr - Role in The Beatles, Ringo Starr - After The Beatles, Ringo Starr - All-Starr Band editions, Ringo Starr - Discography, Ringo Starr - Filmography

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Sometime between about 1967 and 1978 large amounts of older material stored in the BBC's video tape and film libraries were destroyed or wiped. This included many old episodes of Doctor Who, and mostly affects the first two Doctors — William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton. Archival holdings are complete from the programme's move to colour television (starting from Jon Pertwee's time as the Doctor), although a few Pertwee episodes have required substantial restoration work. In all, 108 of 253 episodes produced during the first six years of the programm ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes

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Doctor Who has always appeared on the BBC's mainstream BBC One channel, drawing audiences of many millions of viewers. It was most popular in the late 1970s, when audiences frequently averaged as high as 12 million viewers per airing. During the ITV network strike of 1979, viewership peaked at 16 million. No first-run episode of Doctor Who has ever drawn fewer than three million viewers on BBC One, although its late 1980s performance of three to five million regular viewers was seen as being poor at the time, and was, according ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes

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The original 1963 arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music, as composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, working from tape loops of an individually struck piano string and individual test oscillators and filters. The Derbyshire arrangement served, with minor edits, as the theme tune up to the end of Season 17. A more modern and dynamic arrangement was composed by Peter Howell for Season 18 (1980), which ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes, Doctor Who - Awards

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Menudo - Beginning. Started in 1977 by Edgardo Diaz, it initially included two sets of brothers: Diaz's cousins Ricky Melendez, Carlos Melendez and Oscar Melendez, and Fernando and Nefty Sallaberry. In the next few years, Menudo toured Puerto Rico from shopping mall to shopping mall, from fiesta patronal (a citywide yearly celebration) to fiesta patronal. During this time, they scored a hit with "Los Fantasmas" and they were able to get a regular TV show on Telemundo canal 2 every Saturday night.

Menudo, Menudo - History, Menudo - Beginning, Menudo - 1980s, Menudo - 1990s, Menudo - 2000s, Menudo - Discography

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Edgar Froese arrived in West Berlin in the mid-1960s to study art. He worked as a sculptor and studied under Salvador Dalí, among others. His first band, the R&B-styled The Ones, was gradually dismantled after releasing only one single, and Froese turned to experimentation, playing minor gigs with a variety of musicians. Most of these gigs were in the famous Zodiac nightclub, although Froese's band was also invited to play for his former teacher Dalí. Music was mixed with literature, painting, early forms of multimedia, and more ...

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Tangerine Dream, Tangerine Dream - History, Tangerine Dream - Discography, Tangerine Dream - Studio albums, Tangerine Dream - Soundtrack albums, Tangerine Dream - Live recordings, Tangerine Dream - The Bootmoon Series, Tangerine Dream - Compilations remixes

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Talking Heads married punk rock sensibilities with poppy sounds, clipped funk, art school intellectualism, and later, world music. In David Byrne, they had one of the most distinctive front men of the period; they remained popular during their lifetime, and their concert film Stop Making Sense (which was made at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, and directed by Jonathan Demme) is widely acclaimed as one ...

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Talking Heads, Talking Heads - History, Talking Heads - With Brian Eno, Talking Heads - Post break-up, Talking Heads - Discography, Talking Heads - Studio albums, Talking Heads - Compilations, Talking Heads - Live albums and videos, Talking Heads - Feature-length film, Talking Heads - Singles

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The main character of Evangelion is Shinji Ikari, a shy, dour adolescent boy and Eva pilot. For many years he had lived away from his father with one of his teachers until he was summoned mysteriously at the start of the series. Fellow pilots Rei Ayanami, a silent girl frequently mistaken for being unemotional; and Asuka Langley Soryu, a fiery, proud, red-headed girl; are also primary characters, as well as Shinji's father and NERV commander Gendo Ikari, NERV's head of strategy and tactics Misato Katsuragi, and NERV's head scientist, ...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Composition, Neon Genesis Evangelion - International versions, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Characters, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Plot summary, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Symbolism, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Historical context, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Response, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Different endings, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Commercial origins, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Influences, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Translation notes, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Title, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Other words, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Related releases, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Manga, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Merchandising, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Live action movie, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Super Robot Wars, Neon Genesis Evangelion - Sub-topics

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Hazelwood's colorful history began in 1673 with the discovery of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette. LaSalle, another French explorer claimed the area for France and named it "Louisiana" after King Louis XIV .In 1762, the land was sold by the French to Spain. The Spanish government offered large land grants to pioneers. Settlers from Charlottesville, Virginia populated the Spanish owned territory, now known as the City ...

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Hazelwood Missouri, Hazelwood Missouri - Geography, Hazelwood Missouri - Demographics, Hazelwood Missouri - Overview, Hazelwood Missouri - History, Hazelwood Missouri - Neighboring Hazelwood, Hazelwood Missouri - Missouri links

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Main article: Ainulindalë The supreme deity of Tolkien's universe is called Eru Ilúvatar. In the beginning, Ilúvatar created spirits named the Ainur and he taught them to make music. After the Ainur had become proficient in their skills, Ilúvatar commanded them to make a great music based on a theme of his own design. The most powerful Ainu, Melkor (later called Morgoth or "Dark Enemy" by the elves), Tolkien's equivalent of Satan, disrupted the theme, and in response Ilúvatar introduced new themes that enhanced the music b ...

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Middle-earth, Middle-earth - The name, Middle-earth - The world, Middle-earth - Cosmology, Middle-earth - Geography, Middle-earth - Peoples, Middle-earth - Languages, Middle-earth - History of Middle-earth, Middle-earth - Books, Middle-earth - Works by Tolkien, Middle-earth - Works by others, Middle-earth - Adaptations, Middle-earth - Films, Middle-earth - Games

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