Description: Little girl uses Speak & Spell computer toy with synthesized voice. Interview with man from Texas Instruments about development of this learning tool game with integrated speech, and on future applications of speech recognition and synthesis technology.
Description: Children play in Wainwright Park in St. Mark's parish neighborhood of Dorchester. Younger boys ride bicycles and older youth congregate. Driving past multifamily houses on Welles Avenue and vicinity. Row of triple deckers facing vacant lot.
Description: 1) Cash rich corporations buy tax credits from poorer companies under Reagan's economic recovery program. 2) Changing structure of American family — more single parents and working mothers; Uri Bronfenbrenner. 3) Brief on state senator Alan Sisitsky charged with disruptive behavior at Seattle Airport. 4) Interview with writer V.S. Naipaul. 5) Studio Red Top is home for Boston women in jazz; Cathy Lee, founder and Barbara Merjan, percussionist. 6) Stravinsky centennial festival at New England Conservatory; Robert Craft; photo of Igor; student ensemble with chorus and French horns. 7) Obit of French filmmaker Abel Gance; silent clip from “Napoleon.” Anchor Lydon in bow tie.
Description: Mission Hill residents gather to discuss the real character of their ethnically mixed, stable neighborhood. Mission Hill streets and triple deckers. Children on playground.
Description: CENTRUM EXTERIOR, TICKET BUYERS AT BOX OFFICE, ICE CAPADES POSTER, VISUALS OF ROCK STARS: THE WHO, LINDA RONSTADT, STEVIE NICKS, NEIL DIAMOND, THE BEE GEES.